Fiji, sentence 70
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It was not until 1789, however, that the islands were charted and plotted, when William Bligh, the castaway captain of, passed Ovalau and sailed between the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu en route to Batavia, in what is now Indonesia.
Who acts: explorer · What happens: not be, chart, plot, pass, sail, be · To what, where: islands, castaway captain, Ovalau, Indonesia
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: who acts (explorer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 1789 | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 1789 | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 1789 | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 5 1789 | case |
| 5 | 1789 | 1789 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 charted | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 charted | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 charted | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 charted | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 islands | det |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 charted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 charted | aux:pass |
| 13 | charted | chart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 1789 | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 plotted | cc |
| 15 | plotted | plot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 charted | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 when | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 1789 | conj |
| 18 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 when | nsubj |
| 19 | Bligh | Bligh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 William | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 captain | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 captain | det |
| 22 | castaway | castaway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 captain | compound |
| 23 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 William | appos |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 passed | mark |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 of | punct |
| 26 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 captain | acl |
| 27 | Ovalau | Ovalau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 passed | iobj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sailed | cc |
| 29 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | conj |
| 30 | between | between | ADP | _ | 33 islands | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 islands | det |
| 32 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 islands | amod |
| 33 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sailed | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Viti | case |
| 35 | Viti | Viti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 islands | nmod |
| 36 | Levu | Levu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Viti | flat |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Vanua | cc |
| 38 | Vanua | Vanua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Viti | conj |
| 39 | Levu | Levu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Vanua | flat |
| 40 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 route | compound |
| 41 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Vanua | appos |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Batavia | case |
| 43 | Batavia | Batavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 route | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 what | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 what | case |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 sailed | obl |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 Indonesia | cop |
| 48 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 Indonesia | advmod |
| 49 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 what | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 1789 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | explorer | until 1789 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chart | past · passive | the islands | however property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | plot | participle | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pass | participle | the castaway captain not said here | Ovalau | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ovalau=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | sail | past | between the main islands of Viti and Vanua; what obl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | Indonesia | now | 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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