Basseterre, sentence 96
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Ferry service also exists between Basseterre and Oranjestad, Statia as well as to St. Maarten, but the trips are irregular and infrequent.
Who acts: Ferry service, trips · What happens: exist, be · To what, where: Basseterre
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Basseterre». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferry service, trips), 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 | Ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 service | compound |
| 2 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exists | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 exists | advmod |
| 4 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 Basseterre | case |
| 6 | Basseterre | Basseterre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 exists | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Oranjestad | cc |
| 8 | Oranjestad | Oranjestad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Basseterre | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Statia | punct |
| 10 | Statia | Statia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Basseterre | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 Maarten | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Maarten | case |
| 15 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Maarten | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Maarten | Maarten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Basseterre | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 irregular | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 irregular | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trips | det |
| 20 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 irregular | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 irregular | cop |
| 22 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exists | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 infrequent | cc |
| 24 | infrequent | infrequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 irregular | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | Ferry service | Basseterre and Oranjestad and Statia as Maarten St. | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between basseterre=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the trips | irregular property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the trips not said here | tree rules |
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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