Haiti, sentence 170
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In 1915, Haiti President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam sought to strengthen his tenuous rule by a mass execution of 167 political prisoners.
Who acts: Vilbrun · What happens: seek, strengthen, rule, execute · To what, where: 1915, tenuous rule, 167 political prisoners
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Haiti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vilbrun), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1915 | case |
| 2 | 1915 | 1915 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 sought | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1915 | punct |
| 4 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 President | compound |
| 5 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Vilbrun | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Vilbrun | Vilbrun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | nsubj |
| 7 | Guillaume | Guillaume | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Vilbrun | flat |
| 8 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Vilbrun | flat |
| 9 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 strengthen | mark |
| 11 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sought | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rule | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tenuous | tenuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rule | amod |
| 14 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strengthen | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 execution | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 execution | det |
| 17 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 execution | amod |
| 18 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strengthen | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 prisoners | case |
| 20 | 167 | 167 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 prisoners | nummod |
| 21 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prisoners | amod |
| 22 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 execution | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Vilbrun Haiti President | 1915 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strengthen not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vilbrun Haiti President not said here | Vilbrun's tenuous rule | by a mass execution of 167 political prisoners | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | |||
| 3 | rule | Vilbrun | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | execute | 167 political prisoners | nom execution «act 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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