Greece, sentence 92
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The recapture of Constantinople as the imperial capital in 1261 by the Empire of Nicaea was accompanied by the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, while the islands remained under Genoese and Venetian control.
Who acts: recovery, islands, Empire · What happens: accompany, remain, recapture, recover · To what, where: recapture, Genoese control, Constantinople
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 (recovery, islands, Empire), 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 recapture | det |
| 2 | recapture | recapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Constantinople | case |
| 4 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 recapture | nmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 capital | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 capital | det |
| 7 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 capital | amod |
| 8 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recapture | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1261 | case |
| 10 | 1261 | 1261 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 capital | nmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Empire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Empire | det |
| 13 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 recapture | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Nicaea | case |
| 15 | Nicaea | Nicaea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Empire | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 17 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 recovery | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 empire | det |
| 20 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 recovery | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 empire | case |
| 22 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accompanied | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 much | case |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 recovery | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 peninsula | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 peninsula | det |
| 27 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 peninsula | amod |
| 28 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 much | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 remained | punct |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 remained | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 islands | det |
| 32 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 remained | nsubj |
| 33 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 accompanied | conj |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 control | case |
| 35 | Genoese | genoese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 control | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Venetian | cc |
| 37 | Venetian | venetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Genoese | conj |
| 38 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 remained | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past · passive | the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula | the recapture of Constantinople as the imperial capital in 1261 by the Empire of Nicaea | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | the islands | Genoese control | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under control=Location | ||||
| 3 | recapture | the Empire of Nicaea | Constantinople | as the imperial capital in 1261 | nom recapture «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl by=agent | ||||
| 4 | recover | the empire | nom recovery «event intransitive»: 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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