France, sentence 564
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Francis Poulenc's best-known works are his piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les Biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957) and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra.
Who acts: best known works, Francis · What happens: know, be, work · To what, where: piano suite
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «France». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best known works, Francis), 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 | Francis | Francis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 works | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Poulenc | Poulenc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Francis | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Francis | case |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 works | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 works | amod |
| 7 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 suite | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 suite | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 suite | nmod:poss |
| 10 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suite | compound |
| 11 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | Trois | Trois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 perpétuels | compound |
| 13 | mouvements | mouvement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 perpétuels | compound |
| 14 | perpétuels | perpétuel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 suite | nmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 1919 | punct |
| 16 | 1919 | 1919 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 perpétuels | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 1919 | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ballet | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ballet | det |
| 20 | ballet | ballet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suite | conj |
| 21 | Les | Les | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Biches | compound |
| 22 | Biches | Bich | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 ballet | nmod |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 1923 | punct |
| 24 | 1923 | 1923 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 ballet | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 1923 | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 champêtre | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 champêtre | det |
| 28 | Concert | Concert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 champêtre | compound |
| 29 | champêtre | champêtre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suite | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 1928 | punct |
| 31 | 1928 | 1928 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 champêtre | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 1928 | punct |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 harpsichord | case |
| 34 | harpsichord | harpsichord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 champêtre | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 orchestra | cc |
| 36 | orchestra | orchestra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 harpsichord | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 opera | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 opera | det |
| 39 | opera | opera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suite | conj |
| 40 | Dialogues | Dialogues | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Carmélites | compound |
| 41 | des | Des | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Carmélites | compound |
| 42 | Carmélites | Carmélite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 opera | nmod |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 1957 | punct |
| 44 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 Carmélites | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 1957 | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Gloria | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Gloria | det |
| 48 | Gloria | Gloria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Carmélites | conj |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 1959 | punct |
| 50 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 Gloria | appos |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 1959 | punct |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 soprano | case |
| 53 | soprano | soprano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 opera | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 choir | punct |
| 55 | choir | choir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 soprano | conj |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 orchestra | cc |
| 57 | orchestra | orchestra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 soprano | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 suite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Francis's best known works | Francis's piano suite and the ballet Les Biches and the Concert champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra and the opera Dialogues des Carmélites and the Gloria for soprano and choir and orchestra | Trois mouvements perpétuels nmod; Francis nmod:poss; the ballet Les Biches conj; the Concert champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra conj; the opera Dialogues des Carmélites and the Gloria for soprano and choir and orchestra conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | work | Francis | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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