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title: A grave or a place where ashes rest gives people somewhere to go and… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics
description: A grave or a place where ashes rest gives people somewhere to go and remember: Ellie brings flowers a few weeks later, and Oliver reads «Rest in Peace» on a headstone from 1850, an old prayer that the person may be at peace. Who acts: ashes, grave, Ellie, Oliver. A sentence of the lesson «Burial, cr
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# Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 3

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A grave or a place where ashes rest gives people somewhere to go and remember: Ellie brings flowers a few weeks later, and Oliver reads «Rest in Peace» on a headstone from 1850, an old prayer that the person may be at peace.

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**Who acts:** ashes, grave, Ellie, Oliver, person · **What happens:** rest, give, go, remember, bring, read · **To what, where:** people, flowers, « Rest, Peace, old prayer

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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 (ashes, grave, Ellie, Oliver), 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:3
# text = A grave or a place where ashes rest gives people somewhere to go and remember: Ellie brings flowers a few weeks later, and Oliver reads «Rest in Peace» on a headstone from 1850, an old prayer that the person may be at peace.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj
11	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	«	«	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Rest	Rest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	headstone	headstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	1850	1850	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	acl:relcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **rest** | present | ashes |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | a grave or a place |  | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient somewhere=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** | present | Ellie | flowers |  |  |  | late *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 6 | **read** | present | Oliver | « Rest |  | Peace |  | on a headstone from 1850 and a old prayer | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |
| 7 | **is** | may | the person | a old prayer *not said here* |  | peace |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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.

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