Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 6

In the Chinese lion dance two dancers play one lion, moving to drums and cymbals, sometimes jumping on poles; it is said to bring luck.

Who acts: two dancers · What happens: play, move, jump, say, bring · To what, where: one lion, Chinese lion dance, drums, poles, lion, luck · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two dancers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 dance	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dance	det
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dance	amod
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	compound
5	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	obl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dancers	nummod
7	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	nsubj
8	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 lion	nummod
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moving	punct
12	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 play	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 drums	case
14	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 moving	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cymbals	cc
16	cymbals	cymbal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drums	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jumping	punct
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 jumping	advmod
19	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 moving	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 poles	case
21	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 jumping	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux:pass
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 play	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 bring	mark
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	xcomp
28	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	two dancers	one lion	the Chinese lion dance		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme
2	move	gerund	two dancers not said here		drums and cymbals		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to drum=Trajectory
3	jump	gerund			poles	sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pole=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	present · passive		lion			tree rules
5	bring	to-infinitive		luck			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=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:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:6.

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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