Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 10

The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia, traditionally made from a branch hollowed by termites; skilled players use circular breathing.

Who acts: didgeridoo, skilled players · What happens: come, make, hollow, use · To what, where: Aboriginal Australians, branch, circular breathing

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 (didgeridoo, skilled players), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 didgeridoo	det
2	didgeridoo	didgeridoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Australians	case
5	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Australians	amod
6	Australians	australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
8	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Australia	amod
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Australians	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	_	12 made	advmod
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Australians	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 branch	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 branch	det
15	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl
16	hollowed	hollow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 branch	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 termites	case
18	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hollowed	obl:agent
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 use	punct
20	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 players	amod
21	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 use	nsubj
22	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis
23	circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 breathing	amod
24	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	the didgeridoo		Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from australian=Initial_Location
2	make	participle		Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia not said here	a branch	traditionally property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from branch=Material
3	hollow	participle		a branch not said here			vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
4	use	present	skilled players	circular breathing			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breathing=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, 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: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): R7-rel-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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