Croatia, sentence 59
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The Frankish overlordship ended during the reign of Mislav, or his successor Trpimir I. The native Croatian royal dynasty was founded by duke Trpimir I in the mid 9th century, who defeated the Byzantine and Bulgarian forces.
Who acts: Frankish overlordship, duke, 9th century · What happens: end, found, defeat · To what, where: successor, Byzantine
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frankish overlordship, duke, 9th century), 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 overlordship | det |
| 2 | Frankish | frankish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 overlordship | amod |
| 3 | overlordship | overlordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 reign | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reign | det |
| 7 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mislav | case |
| 9 | Mislav | Mislav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reign | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 founded | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 founded | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 successor | nmod:poss |
| 13 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | Trpimir | Trpimir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 successor | appos |
| 15 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Trpimir | flat |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dynasty | det |
| 17 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dynasty | amod |
| 18 | Croatian | croatian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dynasty | amod |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dynasty | amod |
| 20 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 founded | aux:pass |
| 22 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ended | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 duke | case |
| 24 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 founded | obl |
| 25 | Trpimir | Trpimir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 duke | appos |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 founded | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 century | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 century | det |
| 29 | mid | mid | X | _ | 30 9th | advmod |
| 30 | 9th | 9th | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 century | amod |
| 31 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 founded | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 defeated | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 defeated | nsubj |
| 34 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 century | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Byzantine | det |
| 36 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 defeated | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 forces | cc |
| 38 | Bulgarian | bulgarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 forces | amod |
| 39 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Byzantine | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the Frankish overlordship | during the reign of Mislav | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | found | past · passive | duke | overlordship's successor | century | the native Croatian royal dynasty nsubj:pass; I nsubj | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||
| 3 | defeat | past | the 9th century | the Byzantine and Bulgarian forces | 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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