Cyprus, sentence 98
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Following the death in 1473 of James II, the last Lusignan king, the Republic of Venice assumed control of the island, while the late king's Venetian widow, Queen Catherine Cornaro, reigned as figurehead.
Who acts: last Lusignan king, James · What happens: follow, assume, reign, die · To what, where: control, Queen Catherine
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cyprus». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last Lusignan king, James), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 death | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assumed | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1473 | case |
| 5 | 1473 | 1473 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 death | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 James | case |
| 7 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 death | nmod |
| 8 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 7 James | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 king | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 12 | Lusignan | Lusignan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | compound |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assumed | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Republic | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Republic | det |
| 16 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Venice | case |
| 18 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Republic | nmod |
| 19 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assumed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 control | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 widow | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 widow | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 27 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 king | amod |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 widow | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 king | case |
| 30 | Venetian | venetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 widow | amod |
| 31 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assumed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Catherine | punct |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Catherine | compound |
| 34 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 widow | appos |
| 35 | Cornaro | Cornaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Catherine | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 reigned | punct |
| 37 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 Catherine | acl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 figurehead | case |
| 39 | figurehead | figurehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 reigned | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | assume | past | the last Lusignan king | control of the island | follow the death in 1473 of James; the late king's Venetian widow obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme widow=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | reign | participle | Queen Catherine not said here | as figurehead | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | James | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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