Gaborone, sentence 263
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8564000 m3 of water was bought for domestic use, and 4040000 m3 of water was bought by the commercial and industrial sectors.
Who acts: commercial sectors · What happens: buy · To what, where: 8564000 m3, 4040000
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 (commercial sectors), 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 | 8564000 | 8564000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 m3 | compound |
| 2 | m3 | m3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 bought | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bought | aux:pass |
| 6 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 use | case |
| 8 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 use | amod |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bought | cc |
| 12 | 4040000 | 4040000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | m3 | m3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 4040000 | list |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 m3 | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bought | aux:pass |
| 17 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bought | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 sectors | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sectors | det |
| 20 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sectors | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 industrial | cc |
| 22 | industrial | industrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 commercial | conj |
| 23 | sectors | sector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · passive | 8564000 m3 | of water; for domestic use | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for use=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | buy | past · passive | the commercial sectors | 4040000 | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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