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title: Jesus said, «I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus said, «I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me», and Christians see visiting the sick and old as serving him; the modern hospice was started by Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, in London in 1967, and people of every faith and none now support hospic
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# Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 3

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Jesus said, «I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me», and Christians see visiting the sick and old as serving him; the modern hospice was started by Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, in London in 1967, and people of every faith and none now support hospices.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, you, Christians, Cicely, people · **What happens:** say, be, look, visit, see, serve · **To what, where:** prison, Jesus, sick, modern hospice, London, hospices · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jesus, you, Christians, Cicely), 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:3
# text = Jesus said, «I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me», and Christians see visiting the sick and old as serving him; the modern hospice was started by Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, in London in 1967, and people of every faith and none now support hospices.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hospice	hospice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Cicely	Cicely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl:agent	_	_
43	Saunders	Saunders	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	_
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nsubj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	60	det	_	_
60	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	60	conj	_	_
63	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	64	advmod	_	_
64	support	support	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
65	hospices	hospice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obj	_	_
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  | after Jesus |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Jesus |  |  | prison |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **visit** *in a quote* | past | you | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **see** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **visit** | gerund | Christians *not said here* | the sick |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sick=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **serve** | gerund | Christians *not said here* | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 9 | **start** | past · passive | Cicely | the modern hospice |  | London |  | in 1967 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 10 | **support** | present | people of every faith | hospices |  |  | now |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hospice=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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