Antananarivo, sentence 69
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Under the French, tunnels were constructed through two of the city's largest hills, connecting disparate districts and facilitating the town's expansion.
Who acts: town · What happens: construct, connect, facilitate, expand · To what, where: French tunnels, two, disparate districts, expansion
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Antananarivo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 7 constructed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tunnels | det |
| 3 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tunnels | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 French | punct |
| 5 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 constructed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 constructed | aux:pass |
| 7 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 two | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 constructed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hills | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 city | case |
| 14 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 hills | amod |
| 15 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 two | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 connecting | punct |
| 17 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 constructed | advcl |
| 18 | disparate | disparate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 districts | amod |
| 19 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 connecting | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 facilitating | cc |
| 21 | facilitating | facilitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 connecting | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 expansion | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 town | case |
| 25 | expansion | expansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 facilitating | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | past · passive | the French tunnels | two of the city's largest hills | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | connect | gerund | disparate districts | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent district=Patient | |||||
| 3 | facilitate | gerund | the town's expansion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | expand | the town | nom expansion «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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