Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 7
Everyday talk is full of metaphors: "a heart of gold", "a night owl", "my room is a pigsty".
Who acts: Everyday talk, room · What happens: be · To what, where: pigsty
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 (Everyday talk, room), 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 | Everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 metaphors | case |
| 6 | metaphors | metaphor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metaphors | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | nmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 owl | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 owl | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 owl | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owl | compound |
| 18 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metaphors | appos |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 owl | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pigsty | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 room | nmod:poss |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pigsty | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pigsty | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pigsty | det |
| 26 | pigsty | pigsty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metaphors | appos |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pigsty | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everyday talk | of metaphors; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | my room | a pigsty | 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:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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