Italy, sentence 40
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After the Lombard invasions, Italia was retained as the name for their kingdom, and its successor kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire.
What happens: retain · To what, where: Italia
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 invasions | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 invasions | det |
| 3 | Lombard | Lombard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 invasions | compound |
| 4 | invasions | invasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 retained | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 invasions | punct |
| 6 | Italia | Italia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 retained | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 retained | aux:pass |
| 8 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 retained | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kingdom | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kingdom | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kingdom | compound |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 retained | parataxis |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 24 Empire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Empire | det |
| 22 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 24 Empire | compound |
| 23 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Empire | compound |
| 24 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 kingdom | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 retained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | past · passive | Italia | after the Lombard invasions | as the name for invasions's kingdom; Kingdom's successor kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire parataxis | tree rules |
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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