Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 8

The haka is a Māori ceremonial dance with chanting, stamping and fierce faces; it is used for welcomes, celebrations, funerals and challenges, not only before battles.

Who acts: haka · What happens: be, use · To what, where: Māori ceremonial dance, haka

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 (haka), 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 haka	det
2	haka	haka	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dance	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dance	det
5	Māori	Māori	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dance	amod
6	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dance	amod
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 chanting	case
9	chanting	chanting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dance	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stamping	punct
11	stamping	stamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chanting	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 faces	cc
13	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faces	amod
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chanting	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 used	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 used	aux:pass
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dance	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 welcomes	case
20	welcomes	welcome	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 used	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 celebrations	punct
22	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 welcomes	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 funerals	punct
24	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 welcomes	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 challenges	cc
26	challenges	challenge	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 welcomes	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 battles	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 battles	advmod
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 battles	advmod
30	before	before	ADP	_	31 battles	case
31	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 welcomes	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dance	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the haka	a Māori ceremonial dance				with chanting and stamping and fierce faces	tree rules
2	use	present · passive		haka				for welcomes and celebrations and funerals and challenges and battles	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for welcome=Eventuality

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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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