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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 (Hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.lesson:17 # text = He sang it «very loud, with great unction and expression; and when he had done, he sang it all over again» (unction = great feeling). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 073-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 loud loud ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 unction unction NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 all all ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 over over ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 unction unction NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 29 = = PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Hero | verse | | | | with great unction and expression; loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Hero | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Hero | verse | | | again | | 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](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. 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