Kampala, sentence 45
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To legalise the above changes, the following laws and ordinances were subsequently passed: The Crown lands Ordinance of 1903, The Land Law of 1908, The Registration of Land Titles ordinance of 1922, and the Busulu and Envujo law of 1928.
Who acts: Crown · What happens: legalise, follow, pass, land · To what, where: above changes, Ordinance
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kampala». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crown), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 legalise | mark |
| 2 | legalise | legalise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 changes | det |
| 4 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 changes | amod |
| 5 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laws | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 laws | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 laws | amod |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 changes | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordinances | cc |
| 11 | ordinances | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laws | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | aux:pass |
| 13 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 14 passed | advmod |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 legalise | ccomp |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 lands | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Crown | det |
| 17 | Crown | Crown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lands | nsubj |
| 18 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 legalise | parataxis |
| 19 | Ordinance | Ordinance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lands | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 1903 | case |
| 21 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Ordinance | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Law | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Law | det |
| 24 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Law | compound |
| 25 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ordinance | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 1908 | case |
| 27 | 1908 | 1908 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Law | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Registration | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Registration | det |
| 30 | Registration | Registration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Law | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ordinance | case |
| 32 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Titles | compound |
| 33 | Titles | Title | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 ordinance | compound |
| 34 | ordinance | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Registration | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 1922 | case |
| 36 | 1922 | 1922 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 ordinance | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 law | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 law | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 law | det |
| 40 | Busulu | Busulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 law | compound |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Envujo | cc |
| 42 | Envujo | Envujo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Busulu | conj |
| 43 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lands | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 1928 | case |
| 45 | 1928 | 1928 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 law | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 legalise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | legalise | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pass | past · passive | the above changes the following laws and ordinances | subsequently property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | land | present | the Crown | Ordinance of 1903 | the Busulu law of 1928 conj | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ordinance=Theme |
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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