Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 2

Personification gives a human action or feeling to something that is not human: the wind screams, the moon watches, the eagle has hands.

Who acts: Personification, wind, moon, eagle · What happens: give, not be, scream, watch, have · To what, where: human action, something, hands

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 (Personification, wind, moon, eagle), 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	Personification	personification	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 action	det
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 action	amod
5	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 feeling	cc
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 action	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 gives	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 human	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 human	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 human	advmod
13	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	acl:relcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 screams	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 screams	nsubj
17	screams	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gives	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 watches	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moon	det
20	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watches	nsubj
21	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 screams	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eagle	det
24	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 screams	conj
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 has	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	Personification	a human action or feeling	something		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent action=Theme to something=Recipient
2	not is	present				human property	tree rules
3	scream speech: express	present	the wind				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	present	the moon				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	the eagle	hands			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/2/