Grenada, sentence 25
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The island was given its first European name by Christopher Columbus, who sighted it on his third voyage to the region in 1498 and named it "La Concepción" in honour of the Virgin Mary.
Who acts: Christopher, name · What happens: give, sight, name, voyage, honour · To what, where: island, name, third voyage, honour, Virgin Mary
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Grenada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christopher, name), 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 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 name | amod |
| 7 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Christopher | case |
| 10 | Christopher | Christopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 11 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Christopher | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighted | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sighted | nsubj |
| 14 | sighted | sight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Christopher | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sighted | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 voyage | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 voyage | amod |
| 19 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sighted | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 region | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 region | det |
| 22 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voyage | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1498 | case |
| 24 | 1498 | 1498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 region | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 named | cc |
| 26 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sighted | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 named | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Concepción | punct |
| 29 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Concepción | compound |
| 30 | Concepción | Concepción | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 named | parataxis |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Concepción | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 honour | case |
| 33 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 named | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Mary | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Mary | det |
| 36 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Mary | compound |
| 37 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 honour | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | Christopher | the island | name's first European name obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 2 | sight | past | Christopher | name | Christopher's third voyage to the region in 1498 | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | name | past | Christopher not said here | name | honour of the Virgin Mary | La Concepción parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 4 | name | name | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | voyage | Christopher | to the region in 1498 | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 6 | honour | the Virgin Mary | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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