Belgrade, sentence 139
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During the summer and autumn of 1941, in reprisal for guerrilla attacks, the Germans carried out several massacres of Belgrade citizens; in particular, members of the Jewish community were subject to mass shootings at the order of General Franz Böhme, the German Military Governor of Serbia.
Who acts: Germans, members · What happens: carry out, be, massacre, order · To what, where: several massacres, Belgrade citizens, Franz
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Belgrade». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Germans, members), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 summer | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summer | det |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 autumn | cc |
| 5 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summer | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 1941 | case |
| 7 | 1941 | 1941 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 autumn | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reprisal | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 reprisal | case |
| 10 | reprisal | reprisal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summer | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 attacks | case |
| 12 | guerrilla | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attacks | compound |
| 13 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reprisal | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 summer | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Germans | det |
| 16 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 19 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 massacres | amod |
| 20 | massacres | massacre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 carried | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 citizens | case |
| 22 | Belgrade | Belgrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 citizens | compound |
| 23 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 massacres | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 particular | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 particular | case |
| 26 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 subject | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 members | punct |
| 28 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 subject | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 community | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 community | det |
| 31 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 community | amod |
| 32 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 members | nmod |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 subject | cop |
| 34 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 carried | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 shootings | case |
| 36 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 shootings | amod |
| 37 | shootings | shooting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 subject | obl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 order | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 order | det |
| 40 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 shootings | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Franz | case |
| 42 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Franz | nmod:desc |
| 43 | Franz | Franz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 order | nmod |
| 44 | Böhme | Böhme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Franz | flat |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Governor | punct |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Governor | det |
| 47 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Governor | compound |
| 48 | Military | Military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Governor | amod |
| 49 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Franz | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Serbia | case |
| 51 | Serbia | Serbia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Governor | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | the Germans | several massacres of Belgrade citizens | summer | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent massacre=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | members of the Jewish community | to mass shootings at the order of Franz General and the German Military Governor of Serbia; subject property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | massacre | Belgrade citizens | nom massacre «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | order | Franz General and the German Military Governor of Serbia | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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