Albania, sentence 71
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From the 6th century into the 7th century, the Slavs crossed the Danube and largely absorbed the indigenous Greeks, Illyrians, and Thracians in the Balkans; thus, the Illyrians were mentioned for the last time in historical records in the 7th century.
Who acts: Slavs · What happens: cross, absorb, mention · To what, where: Danube, indigenous Greeks, Illyrians
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Albania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slavs), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 6th | 6th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crossed | obl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 century | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 century | det |
| 7 | 7th | 7th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 century | amod |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 century | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Slavs | det |
| 11 | Slavs | Slav | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 crossed | nsubj |
| 12 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Danube | det |
| 14 | Danube | Danube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 crossed | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 absorbed | cc |
| 16 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 17 absorbed | advmod |
| 17 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crossed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Greeks | det |
| 19 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Greeks | amod |
| 20 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 absorbed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Illyrians | punct |
| 22 | Illyrians | Illyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Greeks | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Thracians | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Thracians | cc |
| 25 | Thracians | Thracian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 absorbed | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Balkans | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Balkans | det |
| 28 | Balkans | Balkan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Thracians | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 mentioned | punct |
| 30 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 35 mentioned | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thus | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Illyrians | det |
| 33 | Illyrians | Illyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 35 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 crossed | parataxis |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 time | amod |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mentioned | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 records | case |
| 41 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 records | amod |
| 42 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 time | nmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 century | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 century | det |
| 45 | 7th | 7th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 46 century | amod |
| 46 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 records | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the Slavs | the Danube | century | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danube=Patient | |||
| 2 | absorb | past | the Slavs not said here | the indigenous Greeks and Illyrians | Thracians in the Balkans obl; largely property | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal greek=Theme | |||
| 3 | mention speech: other | past · passive | the Illyrians | time | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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