--- title: Many families take turns to sit with a dying relative so that they a… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics description: Many families take turns to sit with a dying relative so that they are never alone; Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others all have this tradition. Who acts: Many families, families, Christians. 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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 (Many families, families, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:10 # text = Many families take turns to sit with a dying relative so that they are never alone; Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others all have this tradition. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 16 mark _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 18 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Muslims Muslim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Hindus Hindu PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 27 all all ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Many families | turns | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | Many families *not said here* | | | | | with a dying relative | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | families *= family* | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | Christians and Muslims and Jews and Hindus and others | this tradition | | | | all *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Patient | 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:077-kindness-to-the-dying-and-visiting-the-old.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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