Italy, sentence 588
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Machiavelli's most famous work is The Prince, whose contribution to political thought is the fundamental break between political idealism and realism.
Who acts: famous work, Machiavelli, fundamental break · What happens: be, work, contribute · To what, where: fundamental break
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 (famous work, Machiavelli, fundamental break), 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 | Machiavelli | Machiavelli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Machiavelli | case |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 famous | advmod |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | amod |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 break | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 break | cop |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 break | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 contribution | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 contribution | nmod:poss |
| 11 | contribution | contribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 break | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 thought | case |
| 13 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | amod |
| 14 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contribution | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 break | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 break | det |
| 17 | fundamental | fundamental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 break | amod |
| 18 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 idealism | case |
| 20 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 idealism | amod |
| 21 | idealism | idealism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 break | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 realism | cc |
| 23 | realism | realism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 idealism | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Machiavelli's famous work | the fundamental break | between political idealism and realism; the Prince nsubj; the fundamental break's contribution to political thought nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | work | Machiavelli | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | contribute | the fundamental break | to political thought | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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