Athens, sentence 416
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The most successful songs during the period 1870–1930 were the Athenian serenades (Αθηναϊκές καντάδες), based on the Heptanesean kantádhes (καντάδες 'serenades'; sing.: καντάδα) and the songs performed on stage (επιθεωρησιακά τραγούδια 'theatrical revue songs') in revues, musical comedies, operettas and nocturnes that were dominating Athens's theatre scene.
Who acts: successful songs, nocturnes · What happens: be, base, sing, perform, dominate · To what, where: Athenian serenades, Heptanesean kantádhes, καντάδα, songs, stage, theatre scene
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 (successful songs, nocturnes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 songs | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 successful | advmod |
| 3 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 songs | amod |
| 4 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 serenades | nsubj |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 period | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 period | det |
| 7 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 songs | nmod |
| 8 | 1870 | 1870 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 period | flat |
| 9 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 10 1930 | case |
| 10 | 1930 | 1930 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 1870 | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 serenades | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 serenades | det |
| 13 | Athenian | Athenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 serenades | compound |
| 14 | serenades | serenade | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 καντάδες | punct |
| 16 | Αθηναϊκές | Αθηναϊκές | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 καντάδες | compound |
| 17 | καντάδες | καντάδες | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 serenades | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 καντάδες | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 based | punct |
| 20 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 serenades | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 kantádhes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kantádhes | det |
| 23 | Heptanesean | Heptanesean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 kantádhes | compound |
| 24 | kantádhes | kantádhe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 based | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 καντάδες | punct |
| 26 | καντάδες | καντάδες | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kantádhes | conj |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 serenades | punct |
| 28 | serenades | serenade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 καντάδες | appos |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 serenades | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 sing | punct |
| 31 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 serenades | parataxis |
| 32 | .: | .: | SYM | _ | 33 καντάδα | discourse |
| 33 | καντάδα | καντάδα | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sing | obj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 sing | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 songs | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 songs | det |
| 37 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 serenades | conj |
| 38 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 songs | acl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 stage | case |
| 40 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 performed | obl |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 τραγούδια | punct |
| 42 | επιθεωρησιακά | επιθεωρησιακά | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 τραγούδια | compound |
| 43 | τραγούδια | τραγούδια | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stage | appos |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 τραγούδια | punct |
| 45 | theatrical | theatrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 songs | amod |
| 46 | revue | revue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 songs | compound |
| 47 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 τραγούδια | conj |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 songs | punct |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 τραγούδια | punct |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 revues | case |
| 51 | revues | revue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 performed | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 comedies | punct |
| 53 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 comedies | amod |
| 54 | comedies | comedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 revues | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 operettas | punct |
| 56 | operettas | operetta | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 revues | conj |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 nocturnes | cc |
| 58 | nocturnes | nocturne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 revues | conj |
| 59 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 61 dominating | nsubj |
| 60 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 61 dominating | aux |
| 61 | dominating | dominate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 58 nocturnes | acl:relcl |
| 62 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 scene | nmod:poss |
| 63 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 62 Athens | case |
| 64 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 scene | compound |
| 65 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 dominating | obj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 serenades | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the successful songs during the period | the Athenian serenades and the songs | Αθηναϊκές καντάδες appos; the songs conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | base | participle | the Athenian serenades and the songs not said here | the Heptanesean kantádhes and καντάδες | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on kantádhe=Source | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | καντάδα | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location καντάδα=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perform | participle | the songs not said here | stage | in revues and musical comedies and operettas and nocturnes | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | dominate | past · progressive | nocturnes | Athens's theatre scene | vn contiguous_location-47.8-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scene=Co-Theme |
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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