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title: A humanist funeral has no prayers; a celebrant tells the story of th… — How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: A humanist funeral has no prayers; a celebrant tells the story of the person's life and plays music they loved, and it is a real funeral. Who acts: humanist funeral, celebrant, prayers, funeral. A sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» of the religi
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# How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 15

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A humanist funeral has no prayers; a celebrant tells the story of the person's life and plays music they loved, and it is a real funeral.

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**Who acts:** humanist funeral, celebrant, prayers, funeral · **What happens:** have, tell, play, love, be · **To what, where:** prayers, story, music, real funeral · **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 (humanist funeral, celebrant, prayers, funeral), 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:15
# text = A humanist funeral has no prayers; a celebrant tells the story of the person's life and plays music they loved, and it is a real funeral.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	humanist	humanist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	celebrant	celebrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
20	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a humanist funeral | no prayers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a celebrant | the story of the person's life and music |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 3 | **play** | present | a celebrant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** | past | prayers *= prayer* | music *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | present | funeral | a real funeral |  |  |  |  | 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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