Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 2
Some dances carry deep meaning: the Māori haka is used for welcomes, celebrations, funerals and challenges, and the Japanese Bon Odori honours the spirits of family members from long ago, so they deserve respect.
Who acts: dances, Japanese Bon · What happens: carry, use, honour, deserve · To what, where: deep meaning, Māori haka, spirits, respect
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» 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 (dances, Japanese Bon), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 dances | det |
| 2 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meaning | amod |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 haka | det |
| 8 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 haka | compound |
| 9 | haka | haka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | aux:pass |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carry | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 welcomes | case |
| 13 | welcomes | welcome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 celebrations | punct |
| 15 | celebrations | celebration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 welcomes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 funerals | punct |
| 17 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 welcomes | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 challenges | cc |
| 19 | challenges | challenge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 welcomes | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 honours | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 deserve | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bon | det |
| 23 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Bon | amod |
| 24 | Bon | Bon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 honours | nsubj |
| 25 | Odori | Odori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Bon | flat |
| 26 | honours | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spirits | det |
| 28 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 honours | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 members | case |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 members | compound |
| 31 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spirits | nmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 long | case |
| 33 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 members | nmod |
| 34 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 33 long | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 honours | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 deserve | advmod |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 deserve | nsubj |
| 38 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | conj |
| 39 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 deserve | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | some dances | deep meaning | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | the Māori haka | for welcomes and celebrations and funerals and challenges | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for welcome=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | honour | present | the Japanese Bon | the spirits of family members | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deserve | present | dances = dance | respect | 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:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:2.
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): R6-punct-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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