Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 13
Dying people still enjoy ordinary things, like having their nails painted or chatting about football.
Who acts: Dying people, nails · What happens: die, enjoy, have, paint, chat · To what, where: ordinary things, nails
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, nails), 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 | 4 enjoy | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 enjoy | advmod |
| 4 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 enjoy | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 having | punct |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 enjoy | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nails | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 having | obj |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 having | xcomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 chatting | cc |
| 14 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 having | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 football | case |
| 16 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chatting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enjoy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | enjoy | present | Dying people | ordinary things | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | Dying people not said here | people's nails | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | paint | participle | people's nails not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | chat speech: other | gerund | Dying people not said here | about football | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about football=Topic |
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:13.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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