Greece, sentence 96
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During the 15th to early 19th centuries, while much of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands fell under Ottoman control, Venice retained several key territories.
Who acts: much, Venice · What happens: fall, retain · To what, where: Ottoman control, several key territories
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 (much, Venice), 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 | _ | 3 15th | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 15th | det |
| 3 | 15th | 15th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 24 retained | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 centuries | case |
| 5 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 centuries | amod |
| 6 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 centuries | amod |
| 7 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 15th | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 fell | mark |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Greece | case |
| 12 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Greece | compound |
| 13 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 islands | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 islands | det |
| 16 | Aegean | aegean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 islands | amod |
| 17 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Greece | conj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 15th | conj |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 control | case |
| 20 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 control | amod |
| 21 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 15th | punct |
| 23 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 retained | nsubj |
| 24 | retained | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 territories | amod |
| 26 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 territories | amod |
| 27 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 retained | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 retained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | much of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands | Ottoman control | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under control=Location | ||||
| 2 | retain | past | Venice | several key territories | during the 15th to early 19th centuries | 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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