Gaborone, sentence 296
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Kombis (small vans) and taxis ply the routes within the city, while buses serve surrounding villages and other towns in Botswana.
Who acts: Kombis, buses · What happens: ply, serve, surround · To what, where: routes, villages
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 (Kombis, buses), 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 | Kombis | Kombis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ply | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 vans | punct |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vans | amod |
| 4 | vans | van | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kombis | appos |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 vans | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 taxis | cc |
| 7 | taxis | taxi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kombis | conj |
| 8 | ply | ply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 routes | det |
| 10 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ply | obj |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ply | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 serve | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 serve | mark |
| 16 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 serve | nsubj |
| 17 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ply | conj |
| 18 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 serve | xcomp |
| 19 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 surrounding | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 towns | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 towns | amod |
| 22 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 villages | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Botswana | case |
| 24 | Botswana | Botswana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 villages | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ply | present | Kombis and taxis | the routes | within the city | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent route=Recipient | |||
| 2 | serve | present | buses | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | surround | gerund | buses not said here | villages and other towns | in Botswana | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent village=Destination in botswana=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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