Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 15
Some old people forget they have told a story before; listening patiently is a kindness.
Who acts: old people, people, listening · What happens: forget, tell, listen, be · To what, where: story, kindness · 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 (old people, people, listening), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 people | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forget | nsubj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 forget | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 told | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 kindness | punct |
| 12 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 kindness | csubj |
| 13 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 12 listening | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kindness | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kindness | det |
| 16 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forget | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | some old people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | people | a story | before property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 3 | listen | gerund | patiently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | listening | a kindness | 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:15.
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): no change. 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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