Djibouti, sentence 238
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Originally intended as a staging unit, the battalion's officers responded to the Somalis' desire to fight, leading to their participation alongside the RICM in the October 1916 assault on Fort Douaumont.
Who acts: officers, Somalis, goods · What happens: intend, stage, respond, fight, lead, desire · To what, where: October assault
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Djibouti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officers, Somalis, goods), 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 | Originally | originally | ADV | _ | 2 intended | advmod |
| 2 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 unit | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 unit | det |
| 5 | staging | stage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 unit | amod |
| 6 | unit | unit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 intended | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 responded | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 battalion | det |
| 9 | battalion | battalion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 officers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 battalion | case |
| 11 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 responded | nsubj |
| 12 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 intended | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 desire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Somalis | det |
| 15 | Somalis | somali | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 desire | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 Somalis | case |
| 17 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 responded | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fight | mark |
| 19 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 desire | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leading | punct |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 responded | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 participation | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 participation | nmod:poss |
| 24 | participation | participation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leading | obl |
| 25 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 27 RICM | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 RICM | det |
| 27 | RICM | RICM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 participation | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 assault | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 assault | det |
| 30 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 assault | compound |
| 31 | 1916 | 1916 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 October | flat |
| 32 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 participation | nmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 Fort | case |
| 34 | Fort | Fort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 assault | nmod |
| 35 | Douaumont | Douaumont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Fort | flat |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | participle | as a staging unit; originally property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as unit=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stage | gerund | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | respond speech: other | past | the battalion's officers | to the Somalis's desire | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to desire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | the battalion's officers not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lead | gerund | the battalion's officers not said here | to goods's participation alongside the RICM in the October assault on Fort | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to participation=Patient | ||||
| 6 | desire | the Somalis | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | participate | goods | the October assault on Fort | alongside the RICM | nom participation «act intransitive»: poss=agent alongside=obl in=place |
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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