Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 12

Some words have few or no perfect rhymes, such as orange, month and the Australian word arvo (afternoon); poets can use a near rhyme or put the word in the middle of a line.

Who acts: words, poets · What happens: have, use, put · To what, where: few perfect rhymes, near rhyme, word, middle

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 (words, poets), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rhymes	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 rhymes	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 few	conj
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rhymes	amod
8	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 month	punct
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 month	case
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 month	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 month	punct
14	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rhymes	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 arvo	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 word	det
17	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 word	amod
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arvo	compound
19	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 month	conj
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 afternoon	punct
21	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arvo	parataxis
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 afternoon	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 poets	punct
24	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 use	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 use	aux
26	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rhyme	det
28	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rhyme	amod
29	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 use	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 use	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 middle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 middle	det
36	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 line	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 line	det
39	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 middle	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	some words	few perfect rhymes		such orange month and word arvo	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient
2	use	can	poets	a near rhyme			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient
3	put	infinitive	poets not said here	the word	the middle of a line		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in middle=Destination

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:12.

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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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