Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 6
Aboriginal rock art is among the oldest in the world, and songlines are songs that carry the map of the land and its stories.
Who acts: Aboriginal rock art, songlines, songs · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: world, songs, map
This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history 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 (Aboriginal rock art, songlines, songs), 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 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 art | amod |
| 2 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 art | compound |
| 3 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oldest | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 oldest | cop |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 oldest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oldest | det |
| 7 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oldest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 songs | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 songs | cc |
| 13 | songlines | songline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 songs | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 songs | cop |
| 15 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 oldest | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 songs | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 map | det |
| 19 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carry | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 map | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stories | cc |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 stories | nmod:poss |
| 25 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 land | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 oldest | 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 | Aboriginal rock art | the world | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | songlines | songs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | songs | the map of the land and art's stories | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=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:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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