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description: Jewish families «sit shiva», a week of mourning at home, when friends visit with food and comfort; mourners say the Kaddish, a prayer praising God. Who acts: Jewish families, friends, mourners, prayer. A sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of the
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# How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 12

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Jewish families «sit shiva», a week of mourning at home, when friends visit with food and comfort; mourners say the Kaddish, a prayer praising God.

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**Who acts:** Jewish families, friends, mourners, prayer · **What happens:** sit, visit, say, praising · **To what, where:** shiva, Kaddish, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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 (Jewish families, friends, mourners, prayer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:12
# text = Jewish families «sit shiva», a week of mourning at home, when friends visit with food and comfort; mourners say the Kaddish, a prayer praising God.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	shiva	shiva	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
11	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	mourners	mourner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Kaddish	kaddish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	praising	praising	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **sit** *in a quote* | infinitive | Jewish families *not said here* | shiva |  |  | week |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shiva=Theme |
| 2 | **visit** | present | friends |  |  |  |  | with food and comfort | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with food=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mourners | the Kaddish |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kaddish=Topic |
| 4 | **praising** | gerund | a prayer *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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