Addis Ababa, sentence 281
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The African Union is now housed in a new headquarters built on the site of the demolished Akaki Prison, on land donated by Ethiopia for this purpose in the southwestern part of the city.
What happens: house, build, demolish, donate · To what, where: African Union, new headquarters, site, land, southwestern part
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Union | det |
| 2 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Union | compound |
| 3 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 housed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 housed | aux:pass |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 housed | advmod |
| 6 | housed | house | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 headquarters | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 headquarters | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 headquarters | amod |
| 10 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 housed | obl |
| 11 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 headquarters | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 site | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 site | det |
| 14 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 built | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Prison | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prison | det |
| 17 | demolished | demolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Prison | amod |
| 18 | Akaki | Akaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Prison | compound |
| 19 | Prison | Prison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 site | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 land | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 housed | obl |
| 23 | donated | donate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 land | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Ethiopia | case |
| 25 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 donated | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 purpose | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 purpose | det |
| 28 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 donated | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 part | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 part | det |
| 31 | southwestern | southwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 part | amod |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 donated | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 city | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 city | det |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 part | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 housed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | house | present · passive | the African Union | a new headquarters | now | on land | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in headquarters=Location | ||
| 2 | build | participle | a new headquarters not said here | the site of the demolished Akaki Prison | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on site=Source | ||||
| 3 | demolish | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | donate | participle | land not said here | the southwestern part of the city | by Ethiopia; for this purpose | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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