Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 2
Rhythm can match the meaning: Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem goes "Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches", and the quick beat rattles along like wheels on a track, while a sad poem is read slowly and softly.
Who acts: Rhythm, train poem, quick beat · What happens: match, go, rattle, read · To what, where: meaning, sad poem
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, train poem, quick beat), 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 | 3 match | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 match | aux |
| 3 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meaning | det |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 match | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Robert | punct |
| 7 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Stevenson | flat |
| 8 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Stevenson | flat |
| 9 | Stevenson | Stevenson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 poem | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Stevenson | case |
| 11 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poem | compound |
| 12 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 match | parataxis |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Faster | punct |
| 15 | Faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 goes | advcl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 fairies | case |
| 17 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Faster | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 faster | punct |
| 19 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 match | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 witches | case |
| 21 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 faster | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bridges | punct |
| 23 | / | / | SYM | _ | 24 Bridges | cc |
| 24 | Bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 witches | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 houses | cc |
| 26 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Bridges | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hedges | punct |
| 28 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 witches | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ditches | cc |
| 30 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hedges | conj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 hedges | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rattles | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 rattles | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 beat | det |
| 35 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beat | amod |
| 36 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rattles | nsubj |
| 37 | rattles | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 goes | conj |
| 38 | along | along | ADV | _ | 37 rattles | advmod |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 wheels | case |
| 40 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 rattles | obl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 track | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 track | det |
| 43 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wheels | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 read | punct |
| 45 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 50 read | mark |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 poem | det |
| 47 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 poem | amod |
| 48 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 read | nsubj |
| 49 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 read | aux:pass |
| 50 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 rattles | advcl |
| 51 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 50 read | advmod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 softly | cc |
| 53 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 51 slowly | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 match | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | match | can | Rhythm | the meaning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | Robert Louis Stevenson's train poem | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rattle | present | the quick beat | like wheels on a track; along property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | read | present · passive | a sad poem | slowly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:2.
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, 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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