Chile, sentence 320
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In 1837, the country aggressively challenged the dominance of Peru's port of Callao for preeminence in the Pacific trade routes, defeating the short-lived alliance between Peru and Bolivia, the Peru–Bolivian Confederation (1836–39) in the War of the Confederation.
Who acts: country · What happens: challenge, defeat, live · To what, where: dominance, 1837, lived alliance, War
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chile». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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 1837 | case |
| 2 | 1837 | 1837 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 challenged | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1837 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 challenged | nsubj |
| 6 | aggressively | aggressively | ADV | _ | 7 challenged | advmod |
| 7 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dominance | det |
| 9 | dominance | dominance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 challenged | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 port | case |
| 11 | Peru | Peru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 port | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Peru | case |
| 13 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dominance | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Callao | case |
| 15 | Callao | Callao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 port | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 preeminence | case |
| 17 | preeminence | preeminence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 port | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 routes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 routes | det |
| 20 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 routes | compound |
| 21 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 routes | compound |
| 22 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 preeminence | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 defeating | punct |
| 24 | defeating | defeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 challenged | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 alliance | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lived | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 short | punct |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 alliance | amod |
| 29 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 defeating | obj |
| 30 | between | between | ADP | _ | 31 Peru | case |
| 31 | Peru | Peru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 alliance | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Bolivia | cc |
| 33 | Bolivia | Bolivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Peru | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Peru | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Peru | det |
| 36 | Peru | Peru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Peru | conj |
| 37 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 38 Bolivian | punct |
| 38 | Bolivian | Bolivian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Peru | conj |
| 39 | Confederation | Confederation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Bolivian | flat |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 1836 | punct |
| 41 | 1836 | 1836 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 defeating | obj |
| 42 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 43 39 | case |
| 43 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 1836 | nmod |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 1836 | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 War | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 War | det |
| 47 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 defeating | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Confederation | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Confederation | det |
| 50 | Confederation | confederation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 War | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 challenged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge | past | the country | the dominance of Peru's port of Callao for preeminence in the Pacific trade routes | 1837 | aggressively property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | defeat | gerund | the country not said here | the lived alliance | the War of the Confederation | between Peru and Bolivia and the Peru and Bolivian; 1836 obj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | live | participle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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