Gaborone, sentence 18
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In more recent history, the Tlokwa left the Magaliesberg ranges to settle in the area around 1880, and called the settlement Moshaweng.
Who acts: Tlokwa, Magaliesberg · What happens: leave, range, settle, call · To what, where: more recent history, area, settlement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Gaborone». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tlokwa, Magaliesberg), 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 | _ | 4 history | case |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 history | amod |
| 3 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 history | amod |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 history | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tlokwa | det |
| 7 | Tlokwa | Tlokwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Magaliesberg | det |
| 10 | Magaliesberg | Magaliesberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ranges | nsubj |
| 11 | ranges | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 settle | mark |
| 13 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ranges | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 area | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 area | det |
| 16 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 settle | obl |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 1880 | case |
| 18 | 1880 | 1880 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 settle | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 settlement | det |
| 23 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obj |
| 24 | Moshaweng | Moshaweng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 settlement | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the Tlokwa | in more recent history result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in history=Result | ||||
| 2 | range | present | the Magaliesberg | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | settle | to-infinitive | the Magaliesberg not said here | the area | around 1880 | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in area=Location | |||
| 4 | call | past | the Tlokwa not said here | the settlement | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent settlement=Recipient |
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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