Italy, sentence 264
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The country operated nuclear reactors between 1963 and 1990 but, after the Chernobyl disaster and referendums, the nuclear programme was terminated, a decision overturned by the government in 2008, with plans to build up to four nuclear power plants.
Who acts: country · What happens: operate, terminate, overturn, build up · To what, where: nuclear reactors, nuclear programme, decision, 2008
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Italy». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 operated | nsubj |
| 3 | operated | operate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reactors | amod |
| 5 | reactors | reactor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 operated | obj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 1963 | case |
| 7 | 1963 | 1963 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 operated | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 1990 | cc |
| 9 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1963 | conj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 disaster | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disaster | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 disaster | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 disaster | det |
| 14 | Chernobyl | Chernobyl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 disaster | compound |
| 15 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 operated | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 referendums | cc |
| 17 | referendums | referendum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 disaster | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 terminated | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 programme | det |
| 20 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 programme | amod |
| 21 | programme | programme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 terminated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 terminated | aux:pass |
| 23 | terminated | terminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 disaster | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 decision | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 decision | det |
| 26 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 terminated | obl |
| 27 | overturned | overturn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 decision | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 government | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 government | det |
| 30 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 overturned | obl:agent |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 2008 | case |
| 32 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 overturned | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 plans | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 plans | case |
| 35 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 terminated | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 build | mark |
| 37 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 plans | acl |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 build | compound:prt |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 plants | case |
| 40 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 plants | nummod |
| 41 | nuclear | nuclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 plants | amod |
| 42 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 plants | compound |
| 43 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 build | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 operated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operate | past | the country | nuclear reactors | between 1963; the Chernobyl disaster and referendums conj | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Theme reactor=Attribute | |||
| 2 | terminate | past · passive | the nuclear programme | with plans; a decision obl | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overturn | participle | a decision not said here | 2008 | the government obl:agent | tree rules | |||
| 4 | build up | to-infinitive | to four nuclear power plants | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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