Greece, sentence 485
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The University of Constantinople was Christian Europe's first secular institution of higher learning, and by some measures was the world's first university.
Who acts: University · What happens: be · To what, where: first secular institution, first university
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 (University), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 University | det |
| 2 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 institution | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Constantinople | case |
| 4 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 University | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 institution | cop |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Europe | amod |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 institution | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Europe | case |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 institution | amod |
| 10 | secular | secular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 institution | amod |
| 11 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 learning | case |
| 13 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 learning | amod |
| 14 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 institution | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 university | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 university | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 measures | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 measures | det |
| 19 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 university | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 university | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 university | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 world | case |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 university | amod |
| 25 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 institution | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 institution | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the University of Constantinople | Christian Europe's first secular institution and the world's first university | of higher learning; Christian Europe nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the University of Constantinople not said here | the world's first university | by some measures; the world nmod:poss | 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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