Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 7

The modern hospice movement was started by Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, who opened St Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967.

Who acts: Cicely, Christian nurse · What happens: start, open · To what, where: modern hospice movement, Hospice, London

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 (Cicely, Christian nurse), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 movement	det
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 movement	amod
3	hospice	hospice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 movement	compound
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 started	aux:pass
6	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Cicely	case
8	Cicely	Cicely	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 started	obl:agent
9	Saunders	Saunders	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cicely	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nurse	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 nurse	det
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nurse	amod
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Cicely	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 doctor	cc
15	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nurse	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Hospice	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nurse	acl:relcl
19	St	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Christopher	compound
20	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Hospice	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Christopher	case
22	Hospice	hospice	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 London	case
24	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 1967	case
26	1967	1967	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 opened	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 started	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	start	past · passive	Cicely	the modern hospice movement					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	open	past	a Christian nurse and doctor	St Christopher's Hospice		London		in 1967	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hospice=Theme in london=Location

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:7.

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): 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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