--- title: «The communion of saints» means that all Christians, living and dead… — What happens after we die? What our church teaches · tree and pragmatics description: «The communion of saints» means that all Christians, living and dead, are joined in God's family. Who acts: communion, Christians, saints. A sentence of the lesson «What happens after we die? What our church teaches» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/72-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [What happens after we die? What our ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/72-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches/) / 15 # What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 15 «The communion of saints» means that all Christians, living and dead, are joined in God's family. **Who acts:** communion, Christians, saints · **What happens:** mean, live, join, commune · **To what, where:** Christians, family · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (communion, Christians, saints), 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:15 # text = «The communion of saints» means that all Christians, living and dead, are joined in God's family. # 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): no change 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 communion communion NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 saints saint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | the communion of saints | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **live** | gerund | all Christians *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **join** | present · passive | | all Christians | | God's family | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **commune** *in a quote* | | saints | | | | | | nom communion «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. 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