Buenos Aires, sentence 158
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Since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996, Buenos Aires has had a democratically elected executive; Article 61 of the Constitution of the states that "Suffrage is free, equal, secret, universal, compulsory and non-accumulative.
Who acts: Buenos, states · What happens: have, elect, be, adopt · To what, where: Constitution
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Buenos Aires». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buenos, states), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 adoption | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 adoption | det |
| 3 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Constitution | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Constitution | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 city | case |
| 8 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 adoption | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1996 | case |
| 10 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 adoption | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 adoption | punct |
| 12 | Buenos | Buenos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 13 | Aires | Aires | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Buenos | flat |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 elected | det |
| 17 | democratically | democratically | ADV | _ | 18 elected | advmod |
| 18 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 had | xcomp |
| 19 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 elected | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 61 | punct |
| 21 | Article | Article | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 61 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | 61 | 61 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 had | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Constitution | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Constitution | det |
| 25 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 61 | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 states | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 states | det |
| 28 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Constitution | nmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 free | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 free | punct |
| 31 | Suffrage | suffrage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 free | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 free | cop |
| 33 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 states | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 equal | punct |
| 35 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 free | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 secret | punct |
| 37 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 free | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 universal | punct |
| 39 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 free | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 compulsory | punct |
| 41 | compulsory | compulsory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 free | conj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 non-accumulative | cc |
| 43 | non-accumulative | non-accumulative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 free | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | Buenos | since the adoption of the city's Constitution in 1996 | 61 Article of the Constitution of the states parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | elect | participle | Buenos not said here | democratically, executive property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the states | Suffrage nsubj; free property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | the states not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | the states not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be in a quote | the states not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | be in a quote | the states not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | be in a quote | the states not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | adopt | the city's Constitution | nom adoption «act 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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