Aden, sentence 141
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In order to stabilise Aden and the surrounding Aden Protectorate from the designs of the Egyptian backed republicans of North Yemen, the British attempted gradually to unite the disparate states of the region in preparation for eventual independence.
Who acts: designs, republicans · What happens: stabilise, surround, back, attempt, unite · To what, where: Aden, disparate states
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 (designs, republicans), 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 | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 stabilise | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stabilise | mark |
| 4 | stabilise | stabilise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stabilise | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Protectorate | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Protectorate | det |
| 8 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Protectorate | amod |
| 9 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Protectorate | compound |
| 10 | Protectorate | Protectorate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Aden | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 designs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 designs | det |
| 13 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 backed | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Egyptian | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Egyptian | det |
| 16 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 designs | nmod |
| 17 | backed | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stabilise | advcl |
| 18 | republicans | republican | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 attempted | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Yemen | case |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Yemen | compound |
| 21 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 republicans | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 British | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 British | det |
| 24 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Yemen | conj |
| 25 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 backed | ccomp |
| 26 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 25 attempted | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 unite | mark |
| 28 | unite | unite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 attempted | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 states | det |
| 30 | disparate | disparate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 states | amod |
| 31 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 unite | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 region | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 region | det |
| 34 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 states | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 preparation | case |
| 36 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 region | nmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 independence | case |
| 38 | eventual | eventual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 independence | amod |
| 39 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 preparation | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stabilise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stabilise | to-infinitive | Aden and the surrounding Aden Protectorate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | back | past | the designs of the Egyptian | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | attempt | past | republicans of North Yemen | gradually property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | unite not said to happen | to-infinitive | republicans of North Yemen not said here | the disparate states of the region in preparation for eventual independence | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=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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