Amsterdam, sentence 63
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Inventions of on-board gibbing and the haringbuis in 1415, made longer voyages feasible and hence enabled Dutch fishermen to follow the herring shoals far from the coasts, giving them a monopoly in the industry.
Who acts: board, Inventions · What happens: gibb, make, enable, follow, give, invent · To what, where: longer voyages, Dutch fishermen, herring shoals, monopoly, shoals, industry
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amsterdam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (board, Inventions), 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 | Inventions | invention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 board | case |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 board | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 on | punct |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Inventions | nmod |
| 6 | gibbing | gibb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 board | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 haringbuis | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 haringbuis | det |
| 9 | haringbuis | haringbuis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 board | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1415 | case |
| 11 | 1415 | 1415 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 haringbuis | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Inventions | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 voyages | amod |
| 15 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | feasible | feasible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enabled | cc |
| 18 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 19 enabled | advmod |
| 19 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | conj |
| 20 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fishermen | amod |
| 21 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 enabled | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 follow | mark |
| 23 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 enabled | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shoals | det |
| 25 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shoals | compound |
| 26 | shoals | shoal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 follow | obj |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 follow | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 coasts | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coasts | det |
| 30 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 far | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 giving | punct |
| 32 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 follow | advcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 giving | iobj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 monopoly | det |
| 35 | monopoly | monopoly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 giving | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 industry | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 industry | det |
| 38 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 giving | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gibb | gerund | board and the haringbuis in 1415 not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 | longer voyages | feasible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product | |||
| 3 | enable | past | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 not said here | Dutch fishermen | hence property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 not said here | the herring shoals | far property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoal=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | gerund | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 not said here | a monopoly | shoals = shoal | the industry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient monopoly=Theme | ||
| 6 | invent | board and the haringbuis in 1415 | nom invention «cognition 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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