Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 16
"From a Railway Carriage", the train poem, was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1885; "No cap" in slang means "for real".
Who acts: Robert, cap · What happens: write, publish, mean · To what, where: Railway Carriage, 1885
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 (Robert, cap), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 written | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 5 Carriage | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Carriage | det |
| 4 | Railway | railway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Carriage | compound |
| 5 | Carriage | carriage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 written | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carriage | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 poem | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poem | det |
| 9 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poem | compound |
| 10 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Carriage | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Carriage | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 written | aux:pass |
| 13 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Robert | case |
| 15 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 written | obl:agent |
| 16 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Robert | flat |
| 17 | Stevenson | Stevenson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Louis | flat |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 published | cc |
| 19 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 written | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1885 | case |
| 21 | 1885 | 1885 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 published | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 cap | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 cap | punct |
| 24 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 cap | det |
| 25 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 means | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 cap | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 slang | case |
| 28 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cap | nmod |
| 29 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 written | parataxis |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 real | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 real | case |
| 32 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 means | obl |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 real | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 written | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | Robert | a Railway Carriage | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from carriage=Material | ||||
| 2 | publish | participle | Robert not said here | 1885 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | no cap in slang | for real | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for real=Attribute |
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:16.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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