Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 16

When you personify the moon, one or two human actions (it watches, it whispers) work better than giving it a job and a car.

Who acts: you, moon, one · What happens: personify, watch, whisper, work, give · To what, where: moon, job

This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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 (you, moon, one), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 personify	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 personify	nsubj
3	personify	personify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 work	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 personify	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 work	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 work	nsubj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 actions	cc
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 one	conj
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 actions	amod
11	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	conj
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 watches	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 watches	nsubj
14	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 actions	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watches	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whispers	nsubj
17	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 watches	conj
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 watches	punct
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 work	advmod
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 giving	mark
22	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 better	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 giving	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 job	det
25	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 giving	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 car	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 car	det
28	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 job	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	personify	present	you	the moon			tree rules
2	watch	present	moon				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	whisper speech: assert	present	moon				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	infinitive	one or human actions			well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	gerund	one or human actions not said here	a job and a car	moon		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient job=Theme

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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.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 ×2, 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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