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title: A tangihanga, or tangi, is a Māori funeral, often held on a marae (a… — How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: A tangihanga, or tangi, is a Māori funeral, often held on a marae (a Māori meeting place) over about three days; the body is not left alone, and people sing and give speeches. Who acts: tangihanga, people. A sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of
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# How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 14

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A tangihanga, or tangi, is a Māori funeral, often held on a marae (a Māori meeting place) over about three days; the body is not left alone, and people sing and give speeches.

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**Who acts:** tangihanga, people · **What happens:** be, hold, not leave, sing, give · **To what, where:** Māori funeral, marae, body, speeches

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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 (tangihanga, people), 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:14
# text = A tangihanga, or tangi, is a Māori funeral, often held on a marae (a Māori meeting place) over about three days; the body is not left alone, and people sing and give speeches.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tangihanga	tangihanga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tangi	tangi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Māori	Māori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
10	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	marae	marae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Māori	Māori	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
20	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
33	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=32:punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
40	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a tangihanga or tangi | a Māori funeral |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | a Māori funeral *not said here* |  | a marae | day | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on marae=Location |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | present · passive |  | the body |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **give** | present | people *not said here* | speeches |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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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