Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 27

Rossetti's poem «Who has seen the wind?» says we know the wind is there by what it does.

Who acts: poem, we, wind · What happens: see, say, know, be, do · To what, where: wind · 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 (poem, we, 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	Rossetti	Rossetti	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 poem	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Rossetti	case
3	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct
5	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 seen	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 poem	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 poem	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 there	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 there	cop
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 know	ccomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 does	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 does	obj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 does	nsubj
22	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 there	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · perfect	Rossetti's poem	the wind		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus
2	say speech: ask	present	Rossetti's poem			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	the wind		there property	tree rules
5	do	present	wind			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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:27.

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. 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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