Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 2
Old people in care homes and those living alone can be lonely: Oscar finds visiting his nan boring, but his visit may be the best part of her week, and Mia's gran telling the same story again is a chance to listen kindly.
Who acts: Old people, Oscar, visit, gran · What happens: live, be, find, visit, tell, listen · To what, where: nan, best part, same story, chance · 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, Oscar, visit, gran), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lonely | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 homes | case |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 homes | compound |
| 5 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 those | cc |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 people | conj |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 living | advmod |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lonely | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lonely | cop |
| 12 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 lonely | punct |
| 14 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 finds | nsubj |
| 15 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lonely | parataxis |
| 16 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 finds | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nan | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visiting | obj |
| 19 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 visiting | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 part | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 part | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 visit | nmod:poss |
| 23 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 part | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 part | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 part | det |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 part | amod |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 finds | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 week | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 week | nmod:poss |
| 31 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 chance | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 chance | cc |
| 34 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 gran | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Mia | case |
| 36 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 chance | nsubj |
| 37 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 gran | acl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 story | det |
| 39 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 story | amod |
| 40 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 telling | obj |
| 41 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 telling | advmod |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 chance | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 chance | det |
| 44 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 listen | mark |
| 46 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 chance | acl |
| 47 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 46 listen | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | can | Old people in care homes | lonely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | Oscar | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | visit | gerund | Oscar not said here | Oscar's nan | boring property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nan=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | is a | may | Oscar's visit | the best part and a chance | week | tree rules | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Mia's gran not said here | the same story | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is a | present | Mia's gran | a chance | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | listen | to-infinitive | Oscar's visit not said here | kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | visit | Oscar | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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