Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 13

Free verse is poetry without a regular rhyme or beat; it uses line breaks and images instead.

Who acts: Free verse, verse · What happens: be, use · To what, where: poetry, line breaks

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 (Free verse, 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	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 verse	amod
2	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poetry	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poetry	cop
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 uses	parataxis
5	without	without	ADP	_	8 rhyme	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rhyme	det
7	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rhyme	amod
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poetry	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 beat	cc
10	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rhyme	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 uses	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 uses	nsubj
13	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 breaks	compound
15	breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 uses	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 images	cc
17	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 breaks	conj
18	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 uses	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poetry	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	Free verse	poetry				without a regular rhyme or beat	tree rules
2	use	present	verse	line breaks and images				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Patient

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:13.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/13/