Greece, sentence 48
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In response, a number of Greek city-states formed the Hellenic League in 481 BC, led by Sparta, which was the first recorded union of Greek states since the mythical union of the Trojan War.
Who acts: number, Sparta · What happens: form, lead, record, be · To what, where: Hellenic League, response, first recorded union
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Greece». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, Sparta), 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 | _ | 2 response | case |
| 2 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 formed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 response | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 formed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 states | case |
| 7 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 states | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 states | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 city | punct |
| 10 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 11 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 League | det |
| 13 | Hellenic | Hellenic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 League | compound |
| 14 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 formed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 481 | case |
| 16 | 481 | 481 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 formed | obl |
| 17 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 481 | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 formed | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Sparta | case |
| 21 | Sparta | Sparta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl:agent |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 union | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 union | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 union | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 union | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 union | amod |
| 27 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 union | amod |
| 28 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Sparta | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 states | case |
| 30 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 states | amod |
| 31 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 union | nmod |
| 32 | since | since | ADP | _ | 35 union | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 union | det |
| 34 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 union | amod |
| 35 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 War | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 War | det |
| 38 | Trojan | Trojan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 War | compound |
| 39 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 union | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | a number of Greek city states | the Hellenic League | response | in 481 BC | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location league=Theme | ||
| 2 | lead | participle | since the mythical union of the Trojan War | Sparta obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | record | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | Sparta | the first recorded union | of Greek states | tree rules |
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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