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title: The modern hospice movement was started by Cicely Saunders, a Christ… — Kindness to the dying and visiting the old · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary sc
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# Kindness to the dying and visiting the old, sentence 7

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

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

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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 (Cicely, Christian nurse), 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:7
# text = The modern hospice movement was started by Cicely Saunders, a Christian nurse and doctor, who opened St Christopher's Hospice in London in 1967.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hospice	hospice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Cicely	Cicely	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
9	Saunders	Saunders	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	Hospice	hospice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 |

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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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**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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