Barbados, sentence 123
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The following week, on 12 October 2021, incumbent Governor-General of Barbados Sandra Mason was jointly nominated by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition as candidate to be the first president of Barbados, and was subsequently elected on 20 October.
Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: follow, nominate, be, elect · To what, where: following week, first president, 20
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Barbados». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prime Minister), 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 | 3 week | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 week | amod |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nominated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 12 | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 12 | case |
| 6 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 week | acl:relcl |
| 7 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 12 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 12 | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 incumbent | punct |
| 10 | incumbent | incumbent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nominated | obl |
| 11 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 General | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Governor | punct |
| 13 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 incumbent | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Mason | case |
| 15 | Barbados | Barbados | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sandra | compound |
| 16 | Sandra | Sandra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mason | compound |
| 17 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 General | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nominated | aux:pass |
| 19 | jointly | jointly | ADV | _ | 20 nominated | advmod |
| 20 | nominated | nominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Minister | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Minister | det |
| 23 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 24 Minister | compound |
| 24 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 nominated | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Leader | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Leader | det |
| 27 | Leader | Leader | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Minister | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Opposition | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Opposition | det |
| 30 | Opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Leader | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 candidate | case |
| 32 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nominated | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 president | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 president | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 president | det |
| 36 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 president | amod |
| 37 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 candidate | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Barbados | case |
| 39 | Barbados | Barbados | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 president | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 elected | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 elected | cc |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 elected | aux:pass |
| 43 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 44 elected | advmod |
| 44 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 nominated | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 20 | case |
| 46 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 elected | obl |
| 47 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 20 | compound |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 nominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | nominate | past · passive | the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition | the following week | as candidate; incumbent Governor General of Sandra Mason obl; jointly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as candidate=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the first president | of Barbados | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | elect | past · passive | the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition not said here | 20 | subsequently property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
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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