--- title: Throwing a little soil on the coffin is an old way of taking part in… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics description: Throwing a little soil on the coffin is an old way of taking part in the burial and saying goodbye; in Jewish funerals mourners often shovel earth into the grave themselves. Who acts: Throwing, old way, mourners. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Throwing, old way, mourners), 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:7 # text = Throwing a little soil on the coffin is an old way of taking part in the burial and saying goodbye; in Jewish funerals mourners often shovel earth into the grave themselves. # 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 ×1 1 Throwing throw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 20 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 Jewish Jewish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 25 mourners mourner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 shovel shovel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 28 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | gerund | | a little soil | | the coffin | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent soil=Theme on coffin=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | present | Throwing | a old way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | gerund | a old way *not said here* | part | | the burial | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in burial=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a old way *not said here* | goodbye | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | | 5 | **shovel** | present | mourners | earth | | Jewish funerals | | into the grave; often *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme themselves=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:7`. **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 ×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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