Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 8

The sitar has sympathetic strings that are not plucked but vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played; Ravi Shankar made it famous worldwide, and George Harrison of the Beatles learned from him.

Who acts: sitar, Ravi, George · What happens: have, not pluck, vibrate, match, play, make · To what, where: sympathetic strings, matching notes, sitar

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 (sitar, Ravi, George), 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 sitar	det
2	sitar	sitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strings	amod
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 plucked	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plucked	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 plucked	advmod
9	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 strings	acl:relcl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 vibrate	cc
11	vibrate	vibrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 plucked	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 vibrate	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 played	advmod
15	matching	match	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 notes	amod
16	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 played	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 played	aux:pass
18	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 plucked	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	Ravi	Ravi	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
21	Shankar	Shankar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ravi	flat
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 made	xcomp
25	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	_	24 famous	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 learned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 learned	cc
28	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 learned	nsubj
29	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 George	flat
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Beatles	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Beatles	det
32	Beatles	Beatles	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 Harrison	nmod
33	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 learned	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the sitar	sympathetic strings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
2	not pluck	present · passive		sympathetic strings		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	vibrate	infinitive			by strings = string	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
4	match	gerund				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	play	present · passive		matching notes		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	make	past	Ravi	sitar	famous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
7	learn	past	George		from Ravi	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source

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:8.

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 ×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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