Addis Ababa, sentence 77
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After the occupation, the city served as the Duke of Aosta's capital for unified Italian East Africa until 1941, when it was abandoned in favour of Amba Alagi and other redoubts during the Second World War's East African Campaign.
Who acts: Second World War · What happens: serve, abandon, favour, campaign · To what, where: city, favour, Amba
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 (Second World War), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 occupation | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 occupation | det |
| 3 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 city | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupation | appos |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 city | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Duke | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duke | det |
| 10 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 capital | case |
| 12 | Aosta | Aosta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 capital | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Aosta | case |
| 14 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Duke | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Africa | case |
| 16 | unified | unified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Africa | amod |
| 17 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Africa | amod |
| 18 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Africa | compound |
| 19 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 capital | nmod |
| 20 | until | until | ADP | _ | 21 1941 | case |
| 21 | 1941 | 1941 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 served | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 abandoned | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 abandoned | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 abandoned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 abandoned | aux:pass |
| 26 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 occupation | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 favour | case |
| 28 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 abandoned | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Amba | case |
| 30 | Amba | Amba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 favour | nmod |
| 31 | Alagi | Alagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Amba | flat |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 redoubts | cc |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 redoubts | amod |
| 34 | redoubts | redoubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Amba | conj |
| 35 | during | during | ADP | _ | 43 Campaign | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 War | det |
| 37 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 War | amod |
| 38 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 War | compound |
| 39 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Campaign | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 War | case |
| 41 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Campaign | compound |
| 42 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Campaign | amod |
| 43 | Campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 abandoned | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | participle | the city not said here | until 1941 | as the Duke of Aosta's capital for unified Italian East Africa | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as duke=Attribute | |||
| 2 | abandon | past · passive | city | favour of Amba and other redoubts | during the Second World War's East African Campaign | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source | |||
| 4 | favour | Amba and other redoubts | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | campaign | the Second World War | nom campaign «event intransitive»: 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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