Aden, sentence 106

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British interests in Aden began in 1796 with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, after which a British fleet docked at Aden for several months at the invitation of the sultan.

Who acts: British interests, British fleet, Napoleon · What happens: begin, dock, invade, invite · To what, where: 1796, Aden, Egypt, sultan

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Aden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British interests, British fleet, Napoleon), 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	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 interests	amod
2	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Aden	case
4	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 interests	nmod
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1796	case
7	1796	1796	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 began	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 invasion	case
9	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 invasion	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Napoleon	case
11	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Egypt	case
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 invasion	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 docked	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 docked	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fleet	det
18	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fleet	amod
19	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 docked	nsubj
20	docked	dock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 began	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 Aden	case
22	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 docked	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 months	case
24	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 months	amod
25	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 docked	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 invitation	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 invitation	det
28	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 docked	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sultan	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sultan	det
31	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 invitation	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	British interests in Aden		1796		with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with invasion=Subeventuality
2	dock	participle	a British fleet		Aden	month	at the invitation of the sultan; which obl	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	invade		Napoleon	Egypt				nom invasion «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
4	invite			the sultan				nom invitation «communication 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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Aden, sentence 106