Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 12
A hospice cares for people who are very ill, to keep them comfortable and help them live as well as they can; Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, started the modern hospice movement in the 1960s.
Who acts: hospice, people, Cicely · What happens: care, be, keep, help, live, start · To what, where: people, modern hospice movement, 1960s
This is a sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» 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 (hospice, people, Cicely), 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 | 3 cares | nsubj |
| 3 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cares | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ill | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ill | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 ill | advmod |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keep | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cares | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 help | cc |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 keep | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 well | advmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 live | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 well | advcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 started | punct |
| 25 | Cicely | Cicely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 started | nsubj |
| 26 | Saunders | Saunders | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Cicely | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 nurse | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 nurse | det |
| 29 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 nurse | amod |
| 30 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Cicely | appos |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 doctor | cc |
| 32 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nurse | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Cicely | punct |
| 34 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cares | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 movement | det |
| 36 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 movement | amod |
| 37 | hospice | hospice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 movement | compound |
| 38 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 started | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 1960s | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 1960s | det |
| 41 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 34 started | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cares | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present | a hospice | for people | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | people | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | a hospice not said here | people | comfortable property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | help | infinitive | a hospice not said here | people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | infinitive | people not said here | well property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | start | past | Cicely | the modern hospice movement | the 1960s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Eventuality |
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 ×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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