Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 1
Rhythm is the beat of a line, the pattern of strong and weak sounds you can clap: "HICK-o-ry, DICK-o-ry, DOCK, the MOUSE ran UP the CLOCK" has a beat you can march to, just like a drum.
Who acts: Rhythm, you, MOUSE, strong sounds · What happens: be, clap, run up, have, march, pattern · To what, where: beat, strong sounds, CLOCK
This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» 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 (Rhythm, you, MOUSE, strong sounds), 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 | Rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beat | det |
| 4 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 line | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pattern | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pattern | det |
| 10 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sounds | case |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sounds | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 weak | cc |
| 14 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strong | conj |
| 15 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pattern | nmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 clap | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 clap | aux |
| 18 | clap | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sounds | acl:relcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 ry | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 HICK | punct |
| 21 | HICK | hick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ry | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ry | punct |
| 23 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 25 ry | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ry | punct |
| 25 | ry | ry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pattern | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 DICK | punct |
| 27 | DICK | DICK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ry | appos |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 ry | punct |
| 29 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 31 ry | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 ry | punct |
| 31 | ry | ry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 DICK | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 DOCK | punct |
| 33 | DOCK | dock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ry | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ran | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 MOUSE | det |
| 36 | MOUSE | mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 ran | nsubj |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ry | conj |
| 38 | UP | up | ADP | _ | 37 ran | compound:prt |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 CLOCK | det |
| 40 | CLOCK | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ran | obj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 ry | punct |
| 42 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | parataxis |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 beat | det |
| 44 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 has | obj |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 march | nsubj |
| 46 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 march | aux |
| 47 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 beat | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 march | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 drum | punct |
| 50 | just | just | ADV | _ | 53 drum | advmod |
| 51 | like | like | ADP | _ | 53 drum | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 drum | det |
| 53 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 has | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | 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 | Rhythm | the beat and the pattern of strong sounds | of a line | tree rules | |||
| 2 | clap | can | you | strong sounds not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run up in a quote | past | the MOUSE | the CLOCK | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clock=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a beat | like a drum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | march | can | you | a beat not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beat=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | pattern | strong sounds | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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