Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 17
Chloe in Cardiff says, «This poem's lush, but I don't get it» (lush is Welsh slang for lovely): liking a poem before you understand it is normal, so read it again.
Who acts: Chloe, poem, lush, you, liking · What happens: say, be, not get, like, understand, read · To what, where: lot, Welsh slang, poem · 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 (Chloe, poem, lush, you), 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 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Cardiff | case |
| 3 | Cardiff | Cardiff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chloe | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lush | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 lush | punct |
| 7 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 poem | det |
| 8 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lush | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lush | cop |
| 10 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lush | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 slang | punct |
| 20 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slang | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 slang | cop |
| 22 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 slang | amod |
| 23 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 lovely | case |
| 25 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 slang | nmod |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 slang | punct |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 read | punct |
| 28 | liking | like | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 normal | csubj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 poem | det |
| 30 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 liking | obj |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 33 understand | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 understand | nsubj |
| 33 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 liking | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 normal | expl |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 normal | cop |
| 36 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 liking | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 read | advmod |
| 39 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 36 normal | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 read | obj |
| 41 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 read | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Chloe in Cardiff | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this poem | lush property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not get in a quote | present · do-support | Chloe in Cardiff = chloe | lot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | lush | Welsh slang | for lovely | tree rules | |||
| 5 | like | gerund | a poem | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot poem=Theme | |||||
| 6 | understand | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | present | liking | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | read | infinitive | liking not said here | lot | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:17.
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): R8-pos-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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