Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 6

A hospice is a place that cares for people who are dying, helping them to be comfortable and live as well as they can.

Who acts: hospice, place, people · What happens: be, care, die, help, live · To what, where: place, people

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 (hospice, place, people), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hospice	det
2	hospice	hospice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cares	nsubj
7	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cares	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dying	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dying	aux
12	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 people	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 helping	punct
14	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cares	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 helping	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 comfortable	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 comfortable	cop
18	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 helping	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 live	cc
20	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cares	conj
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 well	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 live	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 can	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 can	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 well	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a hospice	a place		tree rules
2	care	present	a place		for people	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme
3	die	present · progressive	people			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	help	gerund	a place not said here	people		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
5	is	to-infinitive	people not said here		comfortable property	tree rules
6	live	infinitive	a place not said here		well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:6.

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, 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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