Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 0

Ellie visits her great-aunt in a hospice, a calm place that cares for people who are dying, and worries «what do I say? she can hardly talk»; but she does not need many words: holding a hand, smiling, reading aloud or showing a drawing can mean a lot, and hearing is thought to be one of the last senses to fade.

Who acts: Ellie, calm place, people, I, holding · What happens: visit, care, die, worry, say, talk · To what, where: great aunt, hospice, many words, hand, drawing, lot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» 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 (Ellie, calm place, people, I), 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	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 visits	nsubj
2	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 aunt	nmod:poss
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 aunt	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct
6	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visits	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hospice	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hospice	det
9	hospice	hospice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visits	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hospice	appos
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cares	nsubj
15	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 place	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 people	case
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cares	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dying	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dying	aux
20	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 people	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worries	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 worries	cc
23	worries	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cares	conj
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 say	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 say	obj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 say	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 say	nsubj
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 worries	ccomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 cares	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 talk	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 talk	aux
32	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	33 talk	advmod
33	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 worries	ccomp
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 worries	punct
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 need	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 need	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 need	nsubj
38	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 need	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 need	advmod
40	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 visits	conj
41	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 words	amod
42	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 need	obj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	57 mean	punct
44	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 mean	csubj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 hand	det
46	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 holding	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 smiling	punct
48	smiling	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 holding	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 reading	punct
50	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 holding	conj
51	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	50 reading	advmod
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 showing	cc
53	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 reading	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 drawing	det
55	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 showing	obj
56	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 mean	aux
57	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 visits	parataxis
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 lot	det
59	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 mean	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 thought	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 thought	cc
62	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 thought	nsubj:pass
63	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 thought	aux:pass
64	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 mean	conj
65	to	to	PART	_	67 one	mark
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 one	cop
67	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	64 thought	xcomp
68	of	of	ADP	_	71 senses	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 senses	det
70	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 senses	amod
71	senses	sense	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 one	nmod
72	to	to	PART	_	73 fade	mark
73	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 senses	acl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 visits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	present	Ellie	Ellie's great aunt	a hospice		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Co-Agent
2	care	present	a calm place			for people	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme
3	die	present · progressive	people				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	worry	present	a calm place not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	talk in a quote	can	Ellie			hardly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not need	present · do-support	Ellie	many words			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme
8	hold	gerund		a hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
9	smile	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	read	gerund				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	show	gerund		a drawing			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drawing=Recipient
12	mean	can	holding	a lot			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
13	think speech: other	present · passive		hearing			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
14	is a	to-infinitive		one		of the last senses	tree rules
15	fade	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:0.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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