Equatorial Guinea, sentence 19
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Obiang's regime has been widely characterized as a dictatorship by foreign observers.
Who acts: foreign observers · What happens: characterize · To what, where: regime
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Equatorial Guinea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign observers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Obiang | Obiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 regime | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Obiang | case |
| 3 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characterized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 characterized | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 characterized | aux:pass |
| 6 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 7 characterized | advmod |
| 7 | characterized | characterize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 dictatorship | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dictatorship | det |
| 10 | dictatorship | dictatorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characterized | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 observers | case |
| 12 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 observers | amod |
| 13 | observers | observer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 characterized | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 characterized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characterize | present · perfect · passive | foreign observers | Obiang's regime | as a dictatorship; widely property | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as dictatorship=Attribute |
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