Bridgetown, sentence 29
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In 1631, many acres of land directly facing Carlisle Bay were passed to Henry Hawley, the new Governor; but after reports of his dishonest behaviour he was arrested and forcibly returned to England in 1639.
Who acts: many acres · What happens: face, pass, arrest, return, report · To what, where: Carlisle Bay, many acres, Henry, 1631, Bay, England
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bridgetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many acres), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1631 | case |
| 2 | 1631 | 1631 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 passed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1631 | punct |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 acres | amod |
| 5 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acres | nmod |
| 8 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 9 facing | advmod |
| 9 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 acres | acl |
| 10 | Carlisle | Carlisle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bay | compound |
| 11 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 facing | obj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | aux:pass |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Henry | case |
| 15 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obl |
| 16 | Hawley | Hawley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Henry | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Governor | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Governor | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Governor | amod |
| 20 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Henry | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 arrested | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 arrested | cc |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 reports | case |
| 24 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 arrested | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 behaviour | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 behaviour | amod |
| 28 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reports | nmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 arrested | aux:pass |
| 31 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 passed | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 returned | cc |
| 33 | forcibly | forcibly | ADV | _ | 34 returned | advmod |
| 34 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 arrested | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 England | case |
| 36 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 returned | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 1639 | case |
| 38 | 1639 | 1639 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 returned | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | gerund | many acres of land not said here | Carlisle Bay | directly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bay=Destination | |||
| 2 | pass | past · passive | many acres of land | Henry and the new Governor | 1631 | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to henry=Recipient | |||
| 3 | arrest | past · passive | Bay | after reports of Bay's dishonest behaviour | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | return | past | England | 1639 | forcibly property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to england=Result | |||
| 5 | report | Bay's dishonest behaviour | nom report «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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