Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 9
The kora is a West African instrument with 21 strings, made from a large gourd covered in skin, often called a harp-lute, and traditionally played by griots, who keep history through song.
Who acts: kora, griots · What happens: be, make, cover, call, play, keep · To what, where: West African instrument, 21 strings, large gourd, harp lute, history, song · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (kora, griots), 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 kora | det |
| 2 | kora | kora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 instrument | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 instrument | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 instrument | det |
| 5 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 instrument | compound |
| 6 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 instrument | amod |
| 7 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 strings | case |
| 9 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 strings | nummod |
| 10 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 instrument | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 strings | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 gourd | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gourd | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gourd | amod |
| 16 | gourd | gourd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gourd | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 made | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lute | det |
| 24 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lute | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 lute | punct |
| 26 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 played | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 played | cc |
| 29 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 30 played | advmod |
| 30 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 instrument | parataxis |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 griots | case |
| 32 | griots | griot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 played | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 keep | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 keep | nsubj |
| 35 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 griots | acl:relcl |
| 36 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 keep | obj |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 song | case |
| 38 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 keep | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 instrument | 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 kora | a West African instrument | with 21 strings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | 21 strings not said here | a large gourd | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from gourd=Material | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a large gourd not said here | in skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a harp lute | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | play | participle | by griots; traditionally property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | keep | present | griots | history | song | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent history=Theme through song=Location |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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