Republic of the Congo, sentence 20
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Brazzaville's name derives from the colony's founder, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazzà, an Italian nobleman whose title referred to the town of Brazzacco, in the Italian comune of Moruzzo in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, whose name derived from the Latin Brattius or Braccius, both meaning literally "arm".
Who acts: name, title, both, Brazzaville · What happens: derive, refer, mean, name · To what, where: founder, Latin Brattius, arm
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Republic of the Congo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, title, both, Brazzaville), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazzaville | Brazzaville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Brazzaville | case |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derives | nsubj |
| 4 | derives | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 founder | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 colony | det |
| 7 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 founder | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 colony | case |
| 9 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derives | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Savorgnan | punct |
| 11 | Pierre | Pierre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Savorgnan | compound |
| 12 | Savorgnan | Savorgnan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 founder | appos |
| 13 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Savorgnan | flat |
| 14 | Brazzà | Brazzà | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Savorgnan | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nobleman | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nobleman | det |
| 17 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nobleman | amod |
| 18 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Savorgnan | appos |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 title | nmod:poss |
| 20 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 referred | nsubj |
| 21 | referred | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 nobleman | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 referred | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Brazzacco | case |
| 26 | Brazzacco | Brazzacco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 town | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 comune | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 comune | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 comune | det |
| 30 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 comune | amod |
| 31 | comune | comune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derives | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Moruzzo | case |
| 33 | Moruzzo | Moruzzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 comune | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Friuli | case |
| 35 | Friuli | Friuli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 comune | nmod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Venezia | punct |
| 37 | Venezia | Venezia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Friuli | conj |
| 38 | Giulia | Giulia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Friuli | flat |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 derived | punct |
| 40 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 41 name | nmod:poss |
| 41 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 derived | nsubj |
| 42 | derived | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 Friuli | acl:relcl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 Brattius | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Brattius | det |
| 45 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Brattius | compound |
| 46 | Brattius | Brattius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 derived | obl |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 Braccius | cc |
| 48 | Braccius | Braccius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Brattius | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 meaning | punct |
| 50 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 meaning | nsubj |
| 51 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 Brattius | acl |
| 52 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 54 arm | advmod |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 arm | punct |
| 54 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 meaning | obl |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 arm | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 derives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present | Brazzaville's name | the colony's founder | in the Italian comune of Moruzzo in Friuli and Venezia | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comune=Location | |||
| 2 | refer | past | title | to the town of Brazzacco | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to town=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | derive | past | name | the Latin Brattius or Braccius | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from brattius=Material | ||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | both | arm | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brattius=Topic | ||||
| 5 | name | Brazzaville | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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