Asmara, sentence 86
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Common dishes served from the Italian Eritrean cuisine are 'Pasta al Sugo e Berbere', which means "pasta with tomato sauce and berbere" (spice), "lasagna" and "cotoletta alla milanese" (milano cutlet).
Who acts: Common dishes, Berbere · What happens: serve, be, mean · To what, where: Common dishes, Italian Eritrean cuisine, pasta
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asmara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Common dishes, Berbere), 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 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dishes | amod |
| 2 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 e | nsubj |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dishes | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cuisine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cuisine | det |
| 6 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cuisine | amod |
| 7 | Eritrean | eritrean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cuisine | amod |
| 8 | cuisine | cuisine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 served | obl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 e | cop |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 e | punct |
| 11 | Pasta | Pasta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 al | compound |
| 12 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 e | nsubj |
| 13 | Sugo | Sugo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 al | flat |
| 14 | e | e | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Berbere | Berbere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 e | obj |
| 16 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 15 Berbere | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Berbere | acl:relcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 pasta | punct |
| 20 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sauce | case |
| 22 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sauce | compound |
| 23 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pasta | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 berbere | cc |
| 25 | berbere | berbere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sauce | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 berbere | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 spice | punct |
| 28 | spice | spice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 berbere | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 spice | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lasagna | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 lasagna | punct |
| 32 | lasagna | lasagna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sauce | appos |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 lasagna | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cotoletta | cc |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 cotoletta | punct |
| 36 | cotoletta | cotoletta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pasta | conj |
| 37 | alla | alla | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 milanese | nsubj |
| 38 | milanese | milanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cotoletta | amod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 milanese | punct |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 cutlet | punct |
| 41 | milano | milano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cutlet | compound |
| 42 | cutlet | cutlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cotoletta | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 cutlet | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 e | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | participle | Common dishes not said here | the Italian Eritrean cuisine | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Common dishes | Pasta al nsubj; Berbere obj; e property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | Berbere | pasta and cotoletta | with tomato sauce and berbere | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasta=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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