Cape Town, sentence 66
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This penitentiary island was the site of a maximum security prison where many famous apartheid-era political prisoners served long prison sentences.
Who acts: penitentiary island, many famous era political prisoners · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: site, long prison sentences
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Town». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (penitentiary island, many famous era political prisoners), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 island | det |
| 2 | penitentiary | penitentiary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 island | compound |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 site | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 site | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 site | det |
| 6 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 prison | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prison | det |
| 9 | maximum | maximum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prison | amod |
| 10 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prison | compound |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 site | nmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 served | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prisoners | amod |
| 14 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prisoners | amod |
| 15 | apartheid | apartheid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 era | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 apartheid | punct |
| 17 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prisoners | compound |
| 18 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prisoners | amod |
| 19 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 served | nsubj |
| 20 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 prison | advcl |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sentences | amod |
| 22 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sentences | compound |
| 23 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 served | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 site | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this penitentiary island | the site | of a maximum security prison | tree rules | |||
| 2 | serve | past | many famous era political prisoners | long prison sentences | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=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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