Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 15
Some poems are nonsense on purpose: Edward Lear's «The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea / In a beautiful pea-green boat» isn't realistic at all, it's fun.
Who acts: poems, Owl, wind · What happens: be, go, not be · To what, where: nonsense, purpose, sea, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english 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 (poems, Owl, wind), 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 poems | det |
| 2 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nonsense | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nonsense | cop |
| 4 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 purpose | case |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nonsense | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Edward | punct |
| 8 | Edward | edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lear | compound |
| 9 | Lear | Lear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 purpose | appos |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Lear | case |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Owl | det |
| 13 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cat | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cat | det |
| 16 | Pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cat | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pussy | punct |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Owl | conj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Lear | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | / | / | SYM | _ | 29 boat | cc |
| 23 | In | in | ADP | _ | 29 boat | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 boat | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boat | amod |
| 26 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 green | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 pea | punct |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boat | amod |
| 29 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sea | conj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 realistic | punct |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 realistic | cop |
| 32 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 realistic | advmod |
| 33 | realistic | realistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nonsense | parataxis |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 realistic | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fun | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 fun | nsubj |
| 38 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 fun | cop |
| 39 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nonsense | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nonsense | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some poems | nonsense | purpose | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | the Owl and the Pussy cat | sea / a beautiful green boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | all | realistic property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | wind | fun property | 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:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:15.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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