Greece, sentence 581
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Ancient Greek philosophy involved a disposition to value reasoning and thinking critically of traditional culture, thus inaugurating the Western intellectual tradition.
Who acts: Ancient Greek philosophy · What happens: involve, value, think, inaugurate · To what, where: disposition, reasoning, Western intellectual tradition
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 (Ancient Greek philosophy), 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 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 philosophy | amod |
| 2 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 philosophy | amod |
| 3 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 involved | nsubj |
| 4 | involved | involve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 disposition | det |
| 6 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 involved | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 value | mark |
| 8 | value | value | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 involved | advcl |
| 9 | reasoning | reasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 value | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thinking | cc |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 value | conj |
| 12 | critically | critically | ADV | _ | 11 thinking | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 culture | case |
| 14 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 culture | amod |
| 15 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 critically | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 inaugurating | punct |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 inaugurating | advmod |
| 18 | inaugurating | inaugurate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thinking | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tradition | det |
| 20 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tradition | amod |
| 21 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tradition | amod |
| 22 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inaugurating | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 involved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | past | Ancient Greek philosophy | a disposition | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disposition=Theme | ||||
| 2 | value | to-infinitive | Ancient Greek philosophy not said here | reasoning | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reasoning=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Ancient Greek philosophy not said here | critically property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | inaugurate | gerund | Ancient Greek philosophy not said here | the Western intellectual tradition | thus property | 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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