Kingston, Jamaica, sentence 26
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In 1755 the governor, Sir Charles Knowles, had decided to transfer the government offices from Spanish Town to Kingston.
What happens: decide, transfer · To what, where: Charles, 1755, government offices, Spanish Town
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingston, Jamaica». 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1755 | case |
| 2 | 1755 | 1755 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 decided | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 governor | det |
| 4 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 1755 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1755 | punct |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Charles | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | Knowles | Knowles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Charles | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Charles | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 decided | aux |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 transfer | mark |
| 13 | transfer | transfer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 offices | det |
| 15 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 offices | compound |
| 16 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 transfer | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Town | case |
| 18 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Town | amod |
| 19 | Town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transfer | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Kingston | case |
| 21 | Kingston | Kingston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Town | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect · passive | Charles Sir | 1755 the governor | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | transfer not said to happen | to-infinitive | the government offices | Spanish Town to Kingston | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent office=Theme from town=Initial_Location |
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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