--- title: Ashes look like fine grey sand; families may keep them, bury them or… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics description: Ashes look like fine grey sand; families may keep them, bury them or scatter them in a special place. Who acts: Ashes, families. A sentence of the lesson «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Burial, cremation, the wake and the gr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/) / 11 # Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 11 Ashes look like fine grey sand; families may keep them, bury them or scatter them in a special place. **Who acts:** Ashes, families · **What happens:** look, keep, bury, scatter · **To what, where:** ashes, special place This is a sentence of the lesson «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ashes, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:11 # text = Ashes look like fine grey sand; families may keep them, bury them or scatter them in a special place. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 scatter scatter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Ashes | | | | | like fine grey sand | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **keep** | may | families | ashes *= ash* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **bury** | infinitive | families *not said here* | ashes *= ash* | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **scatter** | infinitive | families *not said here* | ashes *= ash* | | a special place | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Burial, cremation, the wake and the gr…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/10/) - next →: [Burial, cremation, the wake and the gr…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/)