Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 1

Picture a world music fair: a Ukrainian bandura with dozens of strings, a Chinese erhu with only two, an Indian sitar with strings nobody touches that still hum, a West African kora that is half harp, half lute, and a didgeridoo droning without a pause for breath.

Who acts: you, nobody, strings, West African kora, didgeridoo · What happens: picture, touch, hum, be, drone · To what, where: world music fair, strings, harp

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 (you, nobody, strings, West African kora), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fair	det
3	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fair	compound
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fair	compound
5	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 bandura	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bandura	det
8	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bandura	amod
9	bandura	bandura	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fair	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 dozens	case
11	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bandura	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 strings	case
13	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dozens	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 erhu	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 erhu	det
16	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 erhu	amod
17	erhu	erhu	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bandura	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 two	case
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 two	advmod
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 erhu	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitar	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sitar	det
23	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sitar	amod
24	sitar	sitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bandura	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 strings	case
26	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sitar	nmod
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 touches	nsubj
28	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 strings	acl:relcl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 hum	nsubj
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 hum	advmod
31	hum	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 strings	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kora	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 kora	det
34	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 kora	compound
35	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 kora	amod
36	kora	kora	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bandura	conj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 harp	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 harp	cop
39	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	40 harp	advmod
40	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 kora	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lute	punct
42	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	43 lute	compound
43	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 harp	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 droning	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 droning	cc
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 didgeridoo	det
47	didgeridoo	didgeridoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 droning	nsubj
48	droning	drone	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Picture	conj
49	without	without	ADP	_	51 pause	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 pause	det
51	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 droning	obl
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 breath	case
53	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pause	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a world music fair			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fair=Theme
2	touch	present	nobody	strings not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme string=Co-Theme
3	hum	present	strings		still		vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
4	is a	present	a West African kora	harp and half lute		half property	tree rules
5	drone	gerund	a didgeridoo			without a pause for breath	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:1.

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 ×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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