Brazzaville, sentence 121
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Frédéric Bintsamou (born 1964), also known as Pasteur Ntumi, a Protestant clergyman and leader of the "semi-religious" rebel group The Ninjas
Who acts: Frédéric · What happens: bear, know · To what, where: 1964, Frédéric
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Brazzaville». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frédéric), 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 | Frédéric | Frédéric | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Bintsamou | Bintsamou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Frédéric | flat |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Frédéric | acl |
| 5 | 1964 | 1964 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 born | obj |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 known | punct |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 known | advmod |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Frédéric | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Pasteur | case |
| 11 | Pasteur | Pasteur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 known | obl |
| 12 | Ntumi | Ntumi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pasteur | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clergyman | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 clergyman | det |
| 15 | Protestant | protestant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clergyman | amod |
| 16 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Pasteur | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leader | cc |
| 18 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clergyman | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 group | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 group | det |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 semi-religious | punct |
| 22 | semi-religious | semi-religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 group | amod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 semi-religious | punct |
| 24 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 group | compound |
| 25 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clergyman | nmod |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Ninjas | det |
| 27 | Ninjas | Ninjas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pasteur | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | Frédéric not said here | 1964 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1964=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | as Pasteur and the Ninjas | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as pasteur=Attribute |
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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