Fiji, sentence 132
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In June 1871, George Austin Woods, an ex-lieutenant of the Royal Navy, managed to influence Cakobau and organise a group of like-minded settlers and chiefs into forming a governing administration.
What happens: manage, influence, organise, form, govern · To what, where: Cakobau, group, governing administration
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Fiji». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 managed | obl |
| 3 | 1871 | 1871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 George | punct |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 June | appos |
| 6 | Austin | Austin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | flat |
| 7 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 George | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ex-lieutenant | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ex-lieutenant | det |
| 10 | ex-lieutenant | ex-lieutenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 George | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Navy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Navy | det |
| 13 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Navy | amod |
| 14 | Navy | Navy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ex-lieutenant | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 June | punct |
| 16 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 influence | mark |
| 18 | influence | influence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 managed | xcomp |
| 19 | Cakobau | Cakobau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 influence | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 organise | cc |
| 21 | organise | organise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 influence | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 group | det |
| 23 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 organise | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 settlers | case |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 settlers | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 27 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 settlers | amod |
| 28 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 group | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 chiefs | cc |
| 30 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 settlers | conj |
| 31 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 32 forming | mark |
| 32 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 organise | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 administration | det |
| 34 | governing | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 administration | amod |
| 35 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forming | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | june | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | influence | to-infinitive | Cakobau | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cakobau=Patient | |||||
| 3 | organise | infinitive | a group of minded settlers and chiefs | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | form | gerund | a governing administration | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location administration=Theme | |||||
| 5 | govern | gerund | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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