Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 25
Nonsense verse is silly on purpose, written for fun and for the sound of the words.
Who acts: Nonsense verse · What happens: be, write · To what, where: purpose
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 (Nonsense verse), 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 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 verse | compound |
| 2 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silly | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 silly | cop |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 purpose | case |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silly | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 written | punct |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 silly | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fun | case |
| 10 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 written | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sound | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sound | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fun | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 words | det |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sound | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silly | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nonsense verse | purpose | silly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write | participle | Nonsense verse not said here | for fun and the sound of the words | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fun=Beneficiary |
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:25.
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): no change. 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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