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title: Visiting a grave and bringing flowers is a way for the living to sho… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics
description: Visiting a grave and bringing flowers is a way for the living to show love and remember. Who acts: Visiting. 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 every clause.
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# Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 16

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Visiting a grave and bringing flowers is a way for the living to show love and remember.

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**Who acts:** Visiting · **What happens:** visit, bring, be, show, remember · **To what, where:** grave, flowers, way, love

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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 (Visiting), 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:16
# text = Visiting a grave and bringing flowers is a way for the living to show love and remember.
# 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): no change
1	Visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | gerund |  | a grave |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Visiting | a way |  |  |  | for the living | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | love |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient |
| 5 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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