When someone dies, sentence 11

A hospice is a calm place, a bit like a small hospital, that cares for people near the end of their lives; the aim is comfort and no pain, not a cure.

Who acts: hospice, calm place, aim · What happens: be, care · To what, where: calm place, comfort

This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life 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 (hospice, calm place, aim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hospice	det
2	hospice	hospice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bit	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	appos
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 hospital	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hospital	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hospital	amod
13	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cares	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 cares	nsubj
16	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 people	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cares	obl
19	near	near	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 people	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 lives	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 end	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 comfort	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 aim	det
27	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comfort	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 comfort	cop
29	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pain	cc
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 pain	det
32	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comfort	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cure	punct
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 cure	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cure	det
36	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comfort	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a hospice	a calm place	like a small hospital	tree rules
2	care	present	a calm place		for people near the end of people's lives	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme
3	is a	present	the aim	comfort and no pain and a cure		tree rules

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, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:11.

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. 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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