Hargeisa, sentence 35
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H. Swayne, a British soldier and explorer who traversed the Somali peninsula between the 1880-1890s wrote about Hargeisa in his journals:
Who acts: British soldier, H. · What happens: traverse, write · To what, where: Somali peninsula, journals
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 (British soldier, H.), 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 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | Swayne | Swayne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 H. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldier | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soldier | amod |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 H. | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 explorer | cc |
| 8 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soldier | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 traversed | nsubj |
| 10 | traversed | traverse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peninsula | det |
| 12 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 peninsula | compound |
| 13 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 traversed | obj |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 1890s | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 1890s | det |
| 16 | 1880 | 1880 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 1890s | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 1880 | punct |
| 18 | 1890s | 1890 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 traversed | obl |
| 19 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 Hargeisa | case |
| 21 | Hargeisa | Hargeisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wrote | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 journals | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 journals | nmod:poss |
| 24 | journals | journal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wrote | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | traverse | past | a British soldier and explorer | the Somali peninsula | between the 1880 1890s | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peninsula=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | write | past | H. | Hargeisa's journals | about Hargeisa | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hargeisa=Topic |
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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