Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 24
Free verse is poetry without regular rhyme; poems use line breaks, imagery and rhythm, not only rhyme.
Who acts: Free verse, poems · What happens: be, use · To what, where: poetry, line breaks
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 (Free verse, poems), 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 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 verse | amod |
| 2 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poetry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 poetry | cop |
| 4 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 rhyme | case |
| 6 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rhyme | amod |
| 7 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poetry | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| 9 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | nsubj |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 poetry | parataxis |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breaks | compound |
| 12 | breaks | break | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 imagery | punct |
| 14 | imagery | imagery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breaks | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rhythm | cc |
| 16 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breaks | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rhyme | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 rhyme | advmod |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 rhyme | advmod |
| 20 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breaks | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poetry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Free verse | poetry | without regular rhyme | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | present | poems | line breaks and imagery and rhythm and rhyme | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Patient |
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:24.
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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