Israel, sentence 140
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Meanwhile, the Jewish insurgency continued and peaked in July 1947, with a series of widespread guerrilla raids culminating in the Sergeants affair, in which the Irgun took two British sergeants hostage as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives.
Who acts: widespread guerrilla raids, Irgun · What happens: continue, peak, culminate, take, attempt, plan · To what, where: Jewish insurgency, Sergeants affair, sergeants hostage, three Irgun operatives
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Israel». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widespread guerrilla raids, Irgun), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 continued | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 insurgency | det |
| 4 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 insurgency | amod |
| 5 | insurgency | insurgency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 peaked | cc |
| 8 | peaked | peak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 continued | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 July | case |
| 10 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 peaked | obl |
| 11 | 1947 | 1947 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 series | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 series | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 series | det |
| 15 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peaked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 raids | case |
| 17 | widespread | widespread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 raids | amod |
| 18 | guerrilla | guerrilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 raids | compound |
| 19 | raids | raid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 series | nmod |
| 20 | culminating | culminate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 raids | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 affair | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 affair | det |
| 23 | Sergeants | Sergeant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 affair | compound |
| 24 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 culminating | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 took | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Irgun | det |
| 29 | Irgun | Irgun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 continued | conj |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 sergeants | nummod |
| 32 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sergeants | amod |
| 33 | sergeants | sergeant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hostage | compound |
| 34 | hostage | hostage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 leverage | case |
| 36 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 leverage | amod |
| 37 | leverage | leverage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obl |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 41 execution | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 execution | det |
| 40 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 execution | amod |
| 41 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 leverage | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 operatives | case |
| 43 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 operatives | nummod |
| 44 | Irgun | Irgun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 operatives | compound |
| 45 | operatives | operative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 execution | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle · passive | the Jewish insurgency | meanwhile property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peak | participle | july | with a series of widespread guerrilla raids | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | culminate | gerund | widespread guerrilla raids not said here | the Sergeants affair | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the Irgun | sergeants hostage | as attempted leverage against the planned execution of three Irgun operatives; which obl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hostage=Theme as leverage=Attribute | |||
| 5 | attempt | participle | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | execute | three Irgun operatives | 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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