Addis Ababa, sentence 260
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In the Merkato district, which is the largest open market in Africa, is the Grand Anwar Mosque, the biggest mosque in Ethiopia built during the Italian occupation.
Who acts: Merkato district, biggest mosque · What happens: be, build · To what, where: largest open market, Africa, Anwar Mosque, Merkato district
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 (Merkato district, biggest mosque), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 district | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 district | det |
| 3 | Merkato | Merkato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 district | compound |
| 4 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Mosque | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 market | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 market | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 market | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 market | det |
| 9 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 market | amod |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 market | amod |
| 11 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 district | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Africa | case |
| 13 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 market | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 district | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Mosque | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mosque | det |
| 17 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Anwar | amod |
| 18 | Anwar | Anwar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mosque | compound |
| 19 | Mosque | Mosque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 built | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mosque | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mosque | det |
| 22 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 mosque | amod |
| 23 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 built | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Ethiopia | case |
| 25 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mosque | nmod |
| 26 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | during | during | ADP | _ | 30 occupation | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 occupation | det |
| 29 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 occupation | amod |
| 30 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 built | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Merkato district | the largest open market | Africa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Anwar Mosque | the Merkato district | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | past | the biggest mosque in Ethiopia | during the Italian occupation | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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