Chad, sentence 94
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Chad contains six terrestrial ecoregions: East Sudanian savanna, Sahelian Acacia savanna, Lake Chad flooded savanna, East Saharan montane xeric woodlands, South Saharan steppe and woodlands, and Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands.
Who acts: Chad, six terrestrial ecoregions, East, Tibesti Jebel · What happens: contain, flood, woodland · To what, where: savanna
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chad, six terrestrial ecoregions, East, Tibesti Jebel), 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 | Chad | chad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ecoregions | nummod |
| 4 | terrestrial | terrestrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ecoregions | amod |
| 5 | ecoregions | ecoregion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flooded | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 savanna | punct |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sudanian | compound |
| 8 | Sudanian | Sudanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 savanna | compound |
| 9 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flooded | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 savanna | punct |
| 11 | Sahelian | Sahelian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Acacia | compound |
| 12 | Acacia | Acacia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 savanna | compound |
| 13 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 savanna | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lake | punct |
| 15 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 savanna | nmod |
| 16 | Chad | Chad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lake | flat |
| 17 | flooded | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 contains | parataxis |
| 18 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flooded | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 woodlands | punct |
| 20 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 woodlands | nsubj |
| 21 | Saharan | Saharan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 East | flat |
| 22 | montane | montane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woodlands | amod |
| 23 | xeric | xeric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woodlands | amod |
| 24 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 savanna | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 steppe | punct |
| 26 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Saharan | compound |
| 27 | Saharan | Saharan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 steppe | compound |
| 28 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 savanna | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 woodlands | cc |
| 30 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 steppe | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 woodlands | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 woodlands | cc |
| 33 | Tibesti | Tibesti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Jebel | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Tibesti | punct |
| 35 | Jebel | Jebel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 woodlands | nsubj |
| 36 | Uweinat | Uweinat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Jebel | flat |
| 37 | montane | montane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 woodlands | amod |
| 38 | xeric | xeric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 woodlands | amod |
| 39 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flooded | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Chad | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | flood | past | six terrestrial ecoregions | savanna and montane xeric woodlands and Saharan steppe and woodlands | Sudanian savanna Lake and Acacia savanna nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent savanna=Patient | |||
| 3 | woodland | East | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | woodland | Tibesti Jebel | 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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