Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 12

When writing to someone who will not get better, words like «I love you» or «Thinking of you» are both kind and true.

Who acts: words, Kindness · What happens: write, not get, love, think, be · To what, where: someone, you

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 (words, Kindness), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 writing	advmod
2	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 kind	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 someone	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 writing	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 get	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 someone	acl:relcl
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 get	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 words	punct
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 kind	nsubj
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 love	mark
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 love	nsubj
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 words	acl:relcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 love	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 Thinking	cc
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 Thinking	punct
20	Thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 love	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 Thinking	obl
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 Thinking	punct
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 kind	cop
25	both	both	ADV	_	26 kind	advmod
26	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 true	cc
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kind	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 kind	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	gerund	words not said here		someone		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient
2	not get	future				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	love in a quote	present	Kindness	you			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	think speech: other in a quote	gerund	Kindness not said here			of you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	words			both, kind property	tree rules
6	be		words not said here				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:12.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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