Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 10

Many families take turns to sit with a dying relative so that they are never alone; Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others all have this tradition.

Who acts: Many families, families, Christians · What happens: take, sit, die, not be, have · To what, where: turns, tradition

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 (Many families, families, Christians), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 relative	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 relative	det
9	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 relative	amod
10	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 alone	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 alone	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 alone	cop
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 alone	advmod
16	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sit	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
18	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 have	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Muslims	punct
20	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 Christians	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Jews	punct
22	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 Christians	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Hindus	punct
24	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 Christians	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Christians	conj
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 have	advmod
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 tradition	det
30	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	Many families	turns		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
2	sit	to-infinitive	Many families not said here		with a dying relative	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not is	present	families = family		alone property	tree rules
5	have	present	Christians and Muslims and Jews and Hindus and others	this tradition	all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=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:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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