Comoros, sentence 186
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On 10 April 2008, the Comoros became the 179th nation to accept the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Who acts: Comoros · What happens: become, accept · To what, where: 179th nation, 10, Kyoto Protocol
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comoros), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 10 | case |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 became | obl |
| 3 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2008 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Comoros | det |
| 7 | Comoros | Comoros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nation | det |
| 10 | 179th | 179th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 11 nation | amod |
| 11 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 accept | mark |
| 13 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nation | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Protocol | det |
| 15 | Kyoto | Kyoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Protocol | compound |
| 16 | Protocol | Protocol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 accept | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Nations | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Nations | det |
| 19 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 20 Nations | compound |
| 20 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 accept | obl |
| 21 | Framework | Framework | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Convention | compound |
| 22 | Convention | Convention | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Nations | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 Change | case |
| 24 | Climate | Climate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Change | compound |
| 25 | Change | Change | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Convention | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Comoros | the 179th nation | 10 2008 April | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | the Comoros not said here | the Kyoto Protocol | to the United Nations and Framework Convention on Climate Change | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent protocol=Theme to nation=be' |
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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