Hargeisa, sentence 21
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In November 2003, a mission returned to Laas Geel and a team of experts undertook a detailed study of the paintings and their prehistoric context.
Who acts: mission · What happens: return, undertake, study · To what, where: mission, detailed study, paintings
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Hargeisa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mission), 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 November | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 undertook | obl |
| 3 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 November | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mission | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mission | det |
| 6 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 undertook | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mission | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Laas | case |
| 9 | Laas | Laas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl:agent |
| 10 | Geel | Geel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Laas | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 team | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 team | det |
| 13 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mission | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 experts | case |
| 15 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 team | nmod |
| 16 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 study | det |
| 18 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 study | amod |
| 19 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 undertook | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 paintings | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 paintings | det |
| 22 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 study | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 context | cc |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 context | nmod:poss |
| 25 | prehistoric | prehistoric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 context | amod |
| 26 | context | context | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paintings | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 undertook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | a mission and a team of experts not said here | Laas obl:agent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | undertake | past | a mission and a team of experts | a detailed study of the paintings and mission's prehistoric context | november | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | study | the paintings and mission's prehistoric context | nom study «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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