Athens, sentence 112
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At the time, after the extensive destruction it had suffered during the war of independence, it was reduced to a town of about 4,000 people (less than half its earlier population) in a loose swarm of houses along the foot of the Acropolis.
Who acts: extensive destruction, independence · What happens: suffer, reduce, war · To what, where: destruction, loose swarm
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Athens». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extensive destruction, independence), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reduced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 destruction | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 destruction | det |
| 7 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 destruction | amod |
| 8 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffered | aux |
| 11 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 destruction | acl:relcl |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 war | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 war | det |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suffered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 independence | case |
| 16 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 war | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reduced | aux:pass |
| 20 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reduced | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 4,000 | advmod |
| 26 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 people | nummod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 town | nmod |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 population | punct |
| 29 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 31 half | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 less | fixed |
| 31 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 34 population | det:predet |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 population | nmod:poss |
| 33 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 population | amod |
| 34 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 people | appos |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 population | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 swarm | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 swarm | det |
| 38 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 swarm | amod |
| 39 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reduced | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 houses | case |
| 41 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 swarm | nmod |
| 42 | along | along | ADP | _ | 44 foot | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 foot | det |
| 44 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reduced | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Acropolis | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Acropolis | det |
| 47 | Acropolis | Acropolis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 foot | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past · perfect · passive | the extensive destruction not said here | destruction | during the war of independence | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reduce | past · passive | destruction | a loose swarm of houses | time | to a town of 4,000 people goal; along the foot of the Acropolis | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to town=Goal | ||
| 3 | war | independence | nom war «act intransitive»: of=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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