Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 0
Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at hand: gourds, termite-hollowed branches, bamboo, old oil drums, and they carry the stories of the people who play them.
Who acts: corner, own instruments, instruments, people · What happens: build, be, hollow, carry, play · To what, where: own instruments, hand, stories
This is a sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» of the arts 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 (corner, own instruments, instruments, people), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 corner | det |
| 2 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 corner | nmod |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 instruments | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 instruments | amod |
| 9 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 built | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 hand | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hand | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 instruments | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 gourds | punct |
| 16 | gourds | gourd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hand | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 branches | punct |
| 18 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hollowed | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 termite | punct |
| 20 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 branches | amod |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gourds | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bamboo | punct |
| 23 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gourds | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drums | punct |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 drums | amod |
| 26 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drums | compound |
| 27 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gourds | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carry | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 carry | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 carry | nsubj |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stories | det |
| 33 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 carry | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 stories | nmod |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 play | nsubj |
| 38 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 people | acl:relcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 play | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | every corner of the world | corner's own instruments | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset instrument=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | corner's own instruments | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hollow | participle | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | carry | present | instruments = instrument | the stories of the people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 5 | play | present | the people | stories = story | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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