--- title: A hospice cares for people who are very ill, to keep them comfortabl… — Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill · tree and pragmatics description: A hospice cares for people who are very ill, to keep them comfortable and help them live as well as they can; Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, started the modern hospice movement in the 1960s. Who acts: hospice, people, Cicely. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hospice, people, Cicely), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:12 # text = A hospice cares for people who are very ill, to keep them comfortable and help them live as well as they can; Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, started the modern hospice movement in the 1960s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hospice hospice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cares care VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 25 Cicely Cicely PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 26 Saunders Saunders PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 34 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 hospice hospice NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 1960s 1960s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **care** | present | a hospice | | | | | for people | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | people | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a hospice *not said here* | people | | | | comfortable *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **help** | infinitive | a hospice *not said here* | people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **live** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **start** | past | Cicely | the modern hospice movement | | the 1960s | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Eventuality | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-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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