Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 1

Dying people are still people who enjoy ordinary things: Jasmine asks Lucy to paint her nails, and Sam's grandad would love to talk about football; families like Ethan's take turns to sit with Grandma so she is never alone.

Who acts: Dying people, people, Jasmine, grandad, families · What happens: die, be, enjoy, ask, paint, love · To what, where: people, ordinary things, Lucy, nails, turns

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 (Dying people, people, Jasmine, grandad), 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	Dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 people	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 enjoy	nsubj
7	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	acl:relcl
8	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 enjoy	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 asks	punct
11	Jasmine	Jasmine	PROPN	_	12 asks	nsubj
12	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enjoy	conj
13	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 asks	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 paint	mark
15	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asks	xcomp
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 nails	nmod:poss
17	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 paint	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 love	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 love	cc
20	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 grandad	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Sam	case
22	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 love	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 love	aux
24	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asks	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 talk	mark
26	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 love	xcomp
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 football	case
28	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 talk	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 families	punct
30	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	conj
31	like	like	SCONJ	_	35 turns	mark
32	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 families	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Ethan	case
34	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 families	acl:relcl
35	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 take	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 sit	mark
37	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 take	advcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 Grandma	case
39	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 sit	obl
40	so	so	ADV	_	44 alone	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 alone	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 alone	cop
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 alone	advmod
44	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 people	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	present	Dying people	people and Ethan's families		still		tree rules
3	enjoy	present	people and Ethan's families	ordinary things				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	ask speech: ask	present	Jasmine		Lucy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent lucy=Recipient clause=Topic
5	paint not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jasmine not said here	Jasmine's nails				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent nail=Destination
6	love	would	Sam's grandad					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sam's grandad not said here				about football	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about football=Topic
8	take	present	Ethan's families not said here	turns				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
9	sit	to-infinitive	Ethan's families not said here				with Grandma	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	not is	present	Jasmine				alone property	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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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