Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 9
Holding a hand, smiling, reading aloud or showing a drawing can comfort someone who cannot talk much.
Who acts: Holding · What happens: hold, smile, read, show, comfort, not talk · To what, where: hand, drawing, someone
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 (Holding), 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 comfort | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hand | det |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smiling | punct |
| 5 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Holding | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reading | punct |
| 7 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Holding | conj |
| 8 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 7 reading | advmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 showing | cc |
| 10 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 reading | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 drawing | det |
| 12 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showing | obj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 comfort | aux |
| 14 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 comfort | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 talk | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 talk | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 talk | advmod |
| 19 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 someone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 talk | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfort | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | read | gerund | aloud property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | show | gerund | a drawing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drawing=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | comfort | can | Holding | someone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not talk | can | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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. 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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