Aden, sentence 368
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They are mostly rocky islands, some of which are surrounded by incomplete coral reefs, and most of them are considered fishing areas.
Who acts: governorates, coral reefs · What happens: be, surround, consider, fish · To what, where: rocky islands, some, most, areas
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 (governorates, coral reefs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 islands | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 islands | cop |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 islands | advmod |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 islands | amod |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 surrounded | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 some | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 islands | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 reefs | case |
| 13 | incomplete | incomplete | ADV | _ | 14 coral | advmod |
| 14 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reefs | amod |
| 15 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 considered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 considered | cc |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 considered | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 most | nmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 considered | aux:pass |
| 22 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 islands | conj |
| 23 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 considered | xcomp |
| 24 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fishing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 islands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | governorates = governorate | rocky islands | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | surround | present · passive | coral reefs | some | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | consider | present · passive | most of governorates | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fish | gerund | areas | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |
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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