Aden, sentence 83
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In 1421, China's Ming dynasty Yongle Emperor ordered principal envoy grand eunuch Li Xing and grand eunuch Zhou Man of Zheng He's fleet to convey an imperial edict with hats and robes to bestow on the king of Aden.
Who acts: Yongle · What happens: order, be, convey, bestow · To what, where: principal envoy grand eunuch, 1421, imperial edict
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 (Yongle), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 1421 | case |
| 2 | 1421 | 1421 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 ordered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1421 | punct |
| 4 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dynasty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 China | case |
| 6 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dynasty | compound |
| 7 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Yongle | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Yongle | Yongle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Yongle | flat |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eunuch | amod |
| 12 | envoy | envoy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eunuch | amod |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eunuch | amod |
| 14 | eunuch | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obj |
| 15 | Li | Li | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 eunuch | appos |
| 16 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Li | flat | ||
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eunuch | cc |
| 18 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eunuch | amod |
| 19 | eunuch | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eunuch | conj |
| 20 | Zhou | Zhou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Man | compound |
| 21 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eunuch | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Zheng | case |
| 23 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Man | nmod |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fleet | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fleet | cop |
| 26 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eunuch | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 convey | mark |
| 28 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fleet | xcomp |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 edict | det |
| 30 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 edict | amod |
| 31 | edict | edict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 convey | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 hats | case |
| 33 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 edict | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 robes | cc |
| 35 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hats | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 bestow | mark |
| 37 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 convey | advcl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 king | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 king | det |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bestow | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Aden | case |
| 42 | Aden | Aden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 king | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Yongle China's Ming dynasty | principal envoy grand eunuch and grand eunuch | 1421 | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eunuch=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | Yongle | fleet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | convey | to-infinitive | Yongle not said here | a imperial edict | with hats and robes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent edict=Topic | |||
| 4 | bestow | to-infinitive | Yongle not said here | on the king of Aden | tree rules |
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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