Gaborone, sentence 33
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During the city's construction, the chairman of Gaberones Township Authority, Geoffrey Cornish, likened the layout of the city to a "brandy glass" with the government offices in the base of the glass and businesses in the "mall", a strip of land extending from the base.
Who acts: strip, city · What happens: liken, extend, construct · To what, where: layout, mall, base
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 (strip, city), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 construction | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 construction | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 city | case |
| 5 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 likened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chairman | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chairman | det |
| 8 | chairman | chairman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 construction | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Gaberones | case |
| 10 | Gaberones | Gaberones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chairman | nmod |
| 11 | Township | Township | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gaberones | flat |
| 12 | Authority | Authority | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gaberones | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Geoffrey | punct |
| 14 | Geoffrey | Geoffrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gaberones | conj |
| 15 | Cornish | Cornish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gaberones | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 construction | punct |
| 17 | likened | liken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 layout | det |
| 19 | layout | layout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 likened | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 layout | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 glass | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 glass | det |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 glass | punct |
| 26 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glass | compound |
| 27 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 likened | obl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 glass | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 offices | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 offices | det |
| 31 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 offices | compound |
| 32 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 likened | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 base | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 base | det |
| 35 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 offices | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 glass | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 glass | det |
| 38 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 base | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 businesses | cc |
| 40 | businesses | business | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 offices | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 mall | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 mall | det |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 mall | punct |
| 44 | mall | mall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 likened | obl |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 mall | punct |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 strip | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 strip | det |
| 48 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 mall | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 land | case |
| 50 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 strip | nmod |
| 51 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 strip | acl |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 base | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 base | det |
| 54 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 extending | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 likened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liken | past | the layout of the city | the mall and a strip of land | during the city's construction | to a brandy glass; with the government offices in the base of the glass and businesses | tree rules | ||
| 2 | extend | gerund | a strip of land not said here | the base | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | construct | the city | nom construction «act transitive»: 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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