Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 17
The trembita is a long wooden horn of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian Carpathians, often around 3 metres or more, used for signals in the mountains and at ceremonies; the Swiss alphorn is a similar mountain horn.
Who acts: trembita, Swiss alphorn · What happens: be, use · To what, where: long wooden horn, similar mountain horn
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 (trembita, Swiss alphorn), 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 trembita | det |
| 2 | trembita | trembita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horn | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 horn | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horn | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horn | amod |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horn | amod |
| 7 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hutsuls | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hutsuls | det |
| 10 | Hutsuls | hutsul | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 horn | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Carpathians | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Carpathians | det |
| 13 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Carpathians | amod |
| 14 | Carpathians | carpathian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Hutsuls | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 metres | punct |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 metres | advmod |
| 17 | around | around | ADV | _ | 18 3 | advmod |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 metres | nummod |
| 19 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horn | parataxis |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 more | cc |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 metres | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 used | punct |
| 23 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 horn | acl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 signals | case |
| 25 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 used | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 mountains | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountains | det |
| 28 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 signals | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ceremonies | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 ceremonies | case |
| 31 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mountains | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 horn | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 alphorn | det |
| 34 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 alphorn | amod |
| 35 | alphorn | alphorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 horn | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 horn | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 horn | det |
| 38 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 horn | amod |
| 39 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 horn | compound |
| 40 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horn | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 horn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trembita | a long wooden horn | of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian Carpathians | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a long wooden horn not said here | for signals in the mountains and ceremonies | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Swiss alphorn | a similar mountain horn | tree rules |
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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, 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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