Danish Realm, sentence 80
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With regard to the extent Rigsdagen was allowed to delegate its legislative power under section 2, Meyers argued that more powers could be delegated to the Faroe Islands than other parts of the country, due to its special history.
Who acts: Meyers · What happens: allow, delegate, argue · To what, where: legislative power, section, more powers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Danish Realm». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meyers), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 regard | case |
| 2 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 allowed | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 extent | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 extent | det |
| 5 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 regard | nmod |
| 6 | Rigsdagen | Rigsdagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 extent | appos |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 delegate | mark |
| 10 | delegate | delegate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legislative | legislative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 power | amod |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delegate | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 section | case |
| 15 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delegate | obl |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 section | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 argued | punct |
| 18 | Meyers | Meyers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 argued | nsubj |
| 19 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 delegated | mark |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 powers | amod |
| 22 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 delegated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 delegated | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 delegated | aux:pass |
| 25 | delegated | delegate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 argued | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Islands | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Islands | det |
| 28 | Faroe | Faroe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Islands | compound |
| 29 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 delegated | obl |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 parts | case |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 parts | amod |
| 32 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 delegated | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 country | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 country | det |
| 35 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 parts | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 history | punct |
| 37 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 41 history | case |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 due | fixed |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 history | nmod:poss |
| 40 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 history | amod |
| 41 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 country | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | with regard to the extent | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | delegate not said to happen | to-infinitive | extent's legislative power | section | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | past | Meyers | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | delegate | could · passive | more powers | to the Faroe Islands; than other parts of the country and country's special history | 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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