Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 4
Christians pray for the sick and believe God is with them whether they get better or not; many hospitals have chaplains of different faiths, and people of every faith and none help by cooking meals, sending cards and being good friends.
Who acts: Christians, God, many hospitals, people · What happens: pray, believe, be, get, have, help · To what, where: chaplains, meals, cards, good friends · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Christians, God, many hospitals, people), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sick | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sick | det |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pray | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 believe | cc |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pray | conj |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 them | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 them | cop |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | advcl |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 get | xcomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 not | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hospitals | amod |
| 20 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pray | conj |
| 22 | chaplains | chaplain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 faiths | case |
| 24 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 faiths | amod |
| 25 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 chaplains | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 people | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 help | cc |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 help | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 faith | case |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 faith | det |
| 31 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 people | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 none | cc |
| 33 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 31 faith | conj |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 cooking | case |
| 36 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 help | obl |
| 37 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cooking | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sending | punct |
| 39 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 cooking | conj |
| 40 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 sending | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 friends | cc |
| 42 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 friends | cop |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 friends | amod |
| 44 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 sending | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | Christians | for the sick | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | present | Christians not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | God | with Christians = christian | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | present | Christians = christian | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | have | present | many hospitals | chaplains of different faiths | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaplain=Patient | ||||
| 6 | help | present | people of every faith | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | cook | gerund | meals | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | |||||
| 8 | send | gerund | cards | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is a | gerund | good friends | 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:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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