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title: Catholic, Orthodox and some Anglican Christians pray for the dead, t… — What happens after we die? What our church teaches · tree and pragmatics
description: Catholic, Orthodox and some Anglican Christians pray for the dead, to show love and ask God to look after them; many Protestants thank God for them instead. Who acts: Catholic, many Protestants. A sentence of the lesson «What happens after we die? What our church teaches» of the religion ethics cour
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# What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 13

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Catholic, Orthodox and some Anglican Christians pray for the dead, to show love and ask God to look after them; many Protestants thank God for them instead.

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**Who acts:** Catholic, many Protestants · **What happens:** pray, show, ask, look, thank · **To what, where:** love, God

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What happens after we die? What our church teaches» 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 (Catholic, many Protestants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:072-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches.lesson:13
# text = Catholic, Orthodox and some Anglican Christians pray for the dead, to show love and ask God to look after them; many Protestants thank God for them instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 072-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches.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	Catholic	catholic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Orthodox	orthodox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	Anglican	Anglican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Protestants	Protestant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **pray** | present | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians |  |  |  |  | for the dead | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for dead=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians *not said here* | love |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians *not said here* |  | God |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent god=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians *not said here* |  |  |  | after Christians *= christian* |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | many Protestants |  | God |  |  | for Christians *= christian*; instead *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for they=Attribute |

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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 ×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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