Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 4
Picture Kai in Liverpool writing "The wind's screamin' through the streets, like": the "like" at the end is just Scouse filler (Scouse is the Liverpool way of talking), so the trick there is personification, not a simile.
Who acts: you, Scouse filler, Liverpool way, trick · What happens: picture, be, talk · To what, where: Kai, Liverpool writing, Scouse filler, Liverpool way, personification
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, Scouse filler, Liverpool way, trick), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 writing | case |
| 4 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 writing | compound |
| 5 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 screamin | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 screamin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 10 | screamin | screamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 writing | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 screamin | punct |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 streets | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 streets | det |
| 14 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Picture | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 way | punct |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 35 way | mark |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 way | punct |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 filler | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 like | det |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 21 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 29 filler | discourse |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 like | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 filler | cop |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 filler | advmod |
| 28 | Scouse | scouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 filler | compound |
| 29 | filler | filler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 way | nsubj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Scouse | punct |
| 31 | Scouse | scouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 filler | conj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 way | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 way | det |
| 34 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 way | compound |
| 35 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 talking | mark |
| 37 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 way | acl |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 way | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 trick | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 trick | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 trick | det |
| 42 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 way | conj |
| 43 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 45 personification | expl |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 personification | cop |
| 45 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 trick | acl:relcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 simile | punct |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 simile | advmod |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 simile | det |
| 49 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 personification | appos |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | 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 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Kai | Liverpool writing | through the streets | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kai=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | present | Scouse filler and Scouse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Scouse filler and Scouse | the Liverpool way and the trick | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | the Liverpool way and the trick not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | the trick not said here | personification | there | tree rules |
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:4.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
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