Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 9
Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close together: "big brown bear", "slithering snakes slide silently".
Who acts: Alliteration, same first sound, snakes · What happens: be, repeat, slither, slide · To what, where: same first sound, words
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 (Alliteration, same first sound, snakes), 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 | Alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sound | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sound | amod |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 sound | amod |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sound | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 repeated | obl |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 close | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 bear | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bear | punct |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bear | amod |
| 15 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bear | amod |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sound | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bear | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sound | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sound | punct |
| 20 | slithering | slither | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sound | acl |
| 21 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 slide | nsubj |
| 22 | slide | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 slithering | conj |
| 23 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 22 slide | advmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 slide | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Alliteration | the same first sound | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | the same first sound not said here | words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | slither in a quote | gerund | the same first sound not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | slide in a quote | present | snakes | silently property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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): no change. 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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