How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 12

Sampling means using a short piece of an old recording in a new song; it is common in hip-hop and pop, and usually needs permission, called clearing the sample.

Who acts: Sampling · What happens: mean, use, be, need, call, clear · To what, where: short piece, new song, hip hop, permission, sample · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» 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 (Sampling), 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	Sampling	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 piece	amod
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 using	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 recording	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 recording	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 recording	amod
10	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 song	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 song	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 song	amod
14	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 using	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 common	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 common	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 common	cop
18	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	parataxis
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 hop	case
20	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hop	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 hip	punct
22	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 common	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pop	cc
24	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hop	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 needs	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 needs	cc
27	usually	usually	ADV	_	28 needs	advmod
28	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
29	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 needs	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 permission	acl
32	clearing	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 called	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sample	det
34	sample	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clearing	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Sampling				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	gerund		a short piece of a old recording	a new song		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
3	is	present	Sampling = sample		hip hop and pop	common property	tree rules
4	need	present	Sampling not said here	permission		usually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot permission=Theme
5	call	participle		permission not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	clear	gerund		the sample			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sample=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:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson:12.

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, R8-pos-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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