Italy, sentence 70
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The invasion of another Germanic tribe in the 6th century, the Lombards, reduced Byzantine presence and ended the political unity of the peninsula.
Who acts: Lombards · What happens: reduce, end, invade · To what, where: Byzantine presence, political unity, invasion, Germanic tribe
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 (Lombards), 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 invasion | det |
| 2 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tribe | case |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 tribe | det |
| 5 | Germanic | germanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tribe | amod |
| 6 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invasion | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 century | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 century | det |
| 9 | 6th | 6th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 10 century | amod |
| 10 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tribe | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lombards | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lombards | det |
| 13 | Lombards | Lombard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 invasion | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reduced | punct |
| 15 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Lombards | acl |
| 16 | Byzantine | byzantine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 presence | amod |
| 17 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reduced | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ended | cc |
| 19 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reduced | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 unity | det |
| 21 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 unity | amod |
| 22 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ended | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 peninsula | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 peninsula | det |
| 25 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 unity | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 invasion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | participle | the Lombards not said here | Byzantine presence | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer presence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | end | past | the Lombards not said here | the political unity of the peninsula | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality unity=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | invade | another Germanic tribe in the 6th century | nom invasion «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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