Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 16
African music includes drums such as the djembe, string instruments like the kora, thumb pianos like the mbira of southern Africa, and many singing styles.
Who acts: African music · What happens: include · To what, where: drums
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 (African music), 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 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 music | amod |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 includes | nsubj |
| 3 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 includes | obj |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 djembe | case |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 such | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 djembe | det |
| 8 | djembe | djembe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drums | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 instruments | punct |
| 10 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruments | compound |
| 11 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drums | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 kora | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kora | det |
| 14 | kora | kora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruments | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pianos | punct |
| 16 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pianos | compound |
| 17 | pianos | piano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drums | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 mbira | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mbira | det |
| 20 | mbira | mbira | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pianos | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Africa | case |
| 22 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Africa | amod |
| 23 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mbira | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 styles | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 styles | cc |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 styles | amod |
| 27 | singing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 styles | compound |
| 28 | styles | style | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drums | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 includes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | African music | drums and string instruments like the kora and thumb pianos like the mbira of southern Africa and many singing styles | such the djembe | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=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:16.
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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