--- title: Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics description: Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at hand: gourds, termite-hollowed branches, bamboo, old oil drums, and they carry the stories of the people who play them. Who acts: corner, own instruments, instruments, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner, own instruments, instruments, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:0 # text = Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at hand: gourds, termite-hollowed branches, bamboo, old oil drums, and they carry the stories of the people who play them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 gourds gourd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 hollowed hollow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | every corner of the world | corner's own instruments | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset instrument=Product | | 2 | **is** | past | corner's own instruments | | | hand | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hollow** | participle | | | | | | | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | present | instruments *= instrument* | the stories of the people | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 5 | **play** | present | the people | stories *= story* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:0`. **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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