Cuba, sentence 528
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Lucumí, a dialect of the West African language Yoruba, is also used as a liturgical language by practitioners of Santería, and so only as a second language.
What happens: use · To what, where: Lucumí
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cuba». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Lucumí | Lucumí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dialect | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dialect | det |
| 4 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lucumí | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 language | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 language | det |
| 7 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 language | compound |
| 8 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 language | amod |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dialect | nmod |
| 10 | Yoruba | Yoruba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 language | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lucumí | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | aux:pass |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 used | advmod |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 language | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 language | det |
| 17 | liturgical | liturgical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 language | amod |
| 18 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 practitioners | case |
| 20 | practitioners | practitioner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 language | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Santería | case |
| 22 | Santería | Santería | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 practitioners | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 language | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 language | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 language | advmod |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 language | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 language | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 language | det |
| 29 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 language | amod |
| 30 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 used | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | Lucumí | as a liturgical language by practitioners of Santería; as a second language | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as language=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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