Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 3
Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery.
Who acts: Poems, pictures · What happens: paint, call · To what, where: pictures, imagery · 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, pictures), 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 | Poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paint | nsubj |
| 2 | paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paint | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pictures | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pictures | acl |
| 8 | imagery | imagery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paint | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present | Poems | pictures | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Destination | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | pictures not said here | imagery | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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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