Dhaka, sentence 200
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The new Hindu elites largely controlled the city's economy and sought greater influence in the city's governance, beginning from the first municipal election in 1885.
Who acts: new Hindu elites · What happens: control, seek, begin · To what, where: economy, greater influence, governance, first municipal election
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dhaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new Hindu elites), 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 | 4 elites | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elites | amod |
| 3 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elites | amod |
| 4 | elites | elite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 controlled | nsubj |
| 5 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 6 controlled | advmod |
| 6 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 economy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 city | case |
| 10 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 controlled | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sought | cc |
| 12 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 controlled | conj |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 influence | amod |
| 14 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sought | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 governance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 governance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 city | case |
| 19 | governance | governance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beginning | punct |
| 21 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sought | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 election | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 election | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 election | amod |
| 25 | municipal | municipal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 election | amod |
| 26 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beginning | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1885 | case |
| 28 | 1885 | 1885 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 beginning | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | past | the new Hindu elites | the city's economy | largely property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Theme | |||
| 2 | seek | past | the new Hindu elites not said here | greater influence | the city's governance | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent influence=Theme in governance=Location | |||
| 3 | begin | gerund | the new Hindu elites not said here | the first municipal election | in 1885 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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