Benin, sentence 64
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Kérékou attempted to reorganize education, pushing his own aphorisms such as "Poverty is not a fatality".
Who acts: Kérékou, Poverty · What happens: attempt, reorganize, push, not be · To what, where: education, own aphorisms, fatality
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Benin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kérékou, Poverty), 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 | Kérékou | Kérékou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 attempted | nsubj |
| 2 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 reorganize | mark |
| 4 | reorganize | reorganize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 attempted | xcomp |
| 5 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reorganize | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pushing | punct |
| 7 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 attempted | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aphorisms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 aphorisms | amod |
| 10 | aphorisms | aphorism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pushing | obj |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 aphorisms | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fatality | punct |
| 14 | Poverty | Poverty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fatality | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fatality | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 fatality | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fatality | det |
| 18 | fatality | fatality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushing | obl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fatality | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | Kérékou | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | reorganize not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kérékou not said here | education | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Result | ||||
| 3 | push | gerund | Kérékou not said here | Kérékou's own aphorisms | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphorism=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | Poverty | a fatality | 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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