--- title: Personification gives a human action or feeling to something that is… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: Personification gives a human action or feeling to something that is not human: the wind screams, the moon watches, the eagle has hands. Who acts: Personification, wind, moon, eagle. 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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 (Personification, wind, moon, eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:2 # text = Personification gives a human action or feeling to something that is not human: the wind screams, the moon watches, the eagle has hands. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Personification personification NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 screams scream VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound 21 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Personification | a human action or feeling | something | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent action=Theme to something=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | human *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | the wind | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **watch** | present | the moon | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | the eagle | hands | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | 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:english:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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