Belgrade, sentence 143
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Just like Rotterdam, which was devastated twice by both German and Allied bombing, Belgrade was bombed once more during World War II, this time by the Allies on 16 April 1944, killing at least 1,100 people.
What happens: devastate, ally, bomb, kill · To what, where: Belgrade, 1,100 people
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: 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 7 devastated | advmod |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 Rotterdam | case |
| 3 | Rotterdam | Rotterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 devastated | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 devastated | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 devastated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 devastated | aux:pass |
| 7 | devastated | devastate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 devastated | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 German | case |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 11 German | cc:preconj |
| 11 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 devastated | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bombing | cc |
| 13 | Allied | ally | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bombing | amod |
| 14 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 German | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bombed | punct |
| 16 | Belgrade | Belgrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bombed | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bombed | aux:pass |
| 18 | bombed | bomb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 devastated | conj |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 bombed | advmod |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 23 War | case |
| 22 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 War | compound |
| 23 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bombed | obl |
| 24 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 23 War | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 time | punct |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 War | appos |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 Allies | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Allies | det |
| 30 | Allies | Ally | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 time | nmod |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 16 | case |
| 32 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 time | nmod |
| 33 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 16 | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | 1944 | 1944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 16 | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 killing | punct |
| 36 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 bombed | advcl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 least | case |
| 38 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 1,100 | nmod |
| 39 | 1,100 | 1,100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 people | nummod |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 killing | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 devastated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devastate | past · passive | like Rotterdam; by German and Allied bombing; which nsubj:pass; twice property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ally | participle | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bomb | past · passive | Belgrade | during World War | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill | gerund | 1,100 people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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