The Bahamas, sentence 152
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Hurricane Dorian of 2019 passed over the archipelago at destructive Category 5 strength with sustained winds of 185 mph and wind gusts up to 220 mph, becoming the strongest tropical cyclone on record to impact the northwestern islands of Grand Bahama and Great Abaco.
Who acts: Hurricane Dorian · What happens: pass, sustain, gust up, become, impact, wind · To what, where: archipelago, destructive Category strength, strongest tropical cyclone, northwestern islands, 185 mph
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Bahamas». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hurricane Dorian), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurricane | Hurricane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dorian | compound |
| 2 | Dorian | Dorian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 2019 | case |
| 4 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Dorian | nmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 archipelago | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 archipelago | det |
| 8 | archipelago | archipelago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 strength | case |
| 10 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 strength | amod |
| 11 | Category | category | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strength | compound |
| 12 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Category | flat |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gusts | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 winds | case |
| 15 | sustained | sustain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 winds | amod |
| 16 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 strength | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mph | case |
| 18 | 185 | 185 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 mph | nummod |
| 19 | mph | mph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 winds | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wind | cc |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mph | conj |
| 22 | gusts | gust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 gusts | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 mph | case |
| 25 | 220 | 220 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 mph | nummod |
| 26 | mph | mph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gusts | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 becoming | punct |
| 28 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 gusts | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cyclone | det |
| 30 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 cyclone | amod |
| 31 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cyclone | amod |
| 32 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 becoming | xcomp |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 record | case |
| 34 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cyclone | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 impact | mark |
| 36 | impact | impact | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 becoming | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 islands | det |
| 38 | northwestern | northwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 islands | amod |
| 39 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 impact | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Bahama | case |
| 41 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Bahama | amod |
| 42 | Bahama | Bahama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 islands | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Great | cc |
| 44 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Bahama | conj |
| 45 | Abaco | Abaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Great | flat |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Hurricane Dorian of 2019 | the archipelago | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over archipelago=Location | ||||
| 2 | sustain | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | gust up | present | destructive Category strength with sustained winds of 185 mph and wind | to 220 mph | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 4 | become | gerund | the strongest tropical cyclone on record | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | impact | to-infinitive | the northwestern islands of Grand Bahama and Great | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wind | 185 mph and wind | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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.
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