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title: At a Church of England burial the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics
description: At a Church of England burial the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection». Who acts: vicar, resurrection. A sentence of the lesson «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 6

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At a Church of England burial the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection».

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**Who acts:** vicar, resurrection · **What happens:** say, hope · **To what, where:** earth, Church burial · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (vicar, resurrection), 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:6
# text = At a Church of England burial the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vicar	vicar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
21	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	resurrection	resurrection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
32	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar | earth to earth and ashes to ashes and dust to dust |  | a Church burial |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hope** *in a quote* |  | the resurrection |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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**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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/).

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