Dominican Republic, sentence 51
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By the time of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, which ceded the western one-third of the island to France, the population of Santo Domingo consisted of a few thousand whites, approximately 30,000 black slaves, and a few Taínos.
Who acts: western one third · What happens: cede, consist · To what, where: few Taínos, 30,000 black slaves
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominican Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (western one third), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ceded | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Treaty | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Treaty | det |
| 6 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ceded | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ryswick | case |
| 8 | Ryswick | Ryswick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Treaty | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1697 | case |
| 10 | 1697 | 1697 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 Treaty | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ceded | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ceded | nsubj |
| 13 | ceded | cede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 third | det |
| 15 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 third | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 third | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 18 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 consisted | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 third | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 France | case |
| 23 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 island | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 population | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 population | det |
| 26 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 consisted | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Santo | case |
| 28 | Santo | Santo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 population | nmod |
| 29 | Domingo | Domingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Santo | flat |
| 30 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ceded | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 whites | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 thousand | det |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 thousand | amod |
| 34 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 whites | nummod |
| 35 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 consisted | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 slaves | punct |
| 37 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 38 30,000 | advmod |
| 38 | 30,000 | 30,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 slaves | nummod |
| 39 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 slaves | amod |
| 40 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 consisted | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Taínos | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Taínos | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 Taínos | det |
| 44 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Taínos | amod |
| 45 | Taínos | Taínos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ceded | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ceded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cede | past | a few Taínos | time | of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697; which nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | consist | past | the western one third of the island to France | 30,000 black slaves | of thousand whites; the population of Santo nsubj | 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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