Addis Ababa, sentence 123
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On 28 May 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition party in course of overthrowing the Derg, seized Addis Ababa.
Who acts: coalition party · What happens: overthrow, seize · To what, where: Derg, Addis Ababa
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Addis Ababa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coalition party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 May | case |
| 2 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 May | nummod |
| 3 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 seized | obl |
| 4 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 May | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Front | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 People | det |
| 7 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 People | compound |
| 8 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Front | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 People | case |
| 10 | Revolutionary | Revolutionary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Front | compound |
| 11 | Democratic | Democratic | PROPN | _ | 12 Front | compound |
| 12 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 May | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 EPRDF | punct |
| 14 | EPRDF | EPRDF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Front | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 EPRDF | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 party | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 18 | coalition | coalition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 party | compound |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 May | appos |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 course | case |
| 21 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 party | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 overthrowing | mark |
| 23 | overthrowing | overthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 party | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Derg | det |
| 25 | Derg | Derg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 overthrowing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 May | punct |
| 27 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | Addis | Addis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ababa | compound |
| 29 | Ababa | Ababa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 seized | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow | gerund | a coalition party in course not said here | the Derg | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Addis Ababa | may | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ababa=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.
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