Canberra, sentence 67
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The Anglican church of St John the Baptist, in the suburb of Reid, was consecrated in 1845, and is now the oldest surviving public building in the city.
What happens: consecrate, survive, be · To what, where: Anglican church, 1845, oldest surviving public building, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 church | det |
| 2 | Anglican | anglican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 church | amod |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consecrated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 John | case |
| 5 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 John | nmod:desc |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 church | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Baptist | det |
| 8 | Baptist | Baptist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 John | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suburb | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 suburb | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 suburb | det |
| 12 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 John | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Reid | case |
| 14 | Reid | Reid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 suburb | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 church | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 consecrated | aux:pass |
| 17 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1845 | case |
| 19 | 1845 | 1845 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 consecrated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 building | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 building | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 building | cop |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 building | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 building | det |
| 25 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 building | amod |
| 26 | surviving | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 building | amod |
| 27 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 building | amod |
| 28 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consecrated | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 city | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 city | det |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 building | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 consecrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consecrate | past · passive | the Anglican church of John St | 1845 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | survive | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the oldest surviving public building | the city | now | 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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