Kinshasa, sentence 323
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This legal evolution culminated in Ordinance No. 68/024 of 20 January 1968, which granted Kinshasa the same politico-administrative status comparable to that of the provinces, thus expanding its communal subdivisions from 11 to 24.
Who acts: legal evolution, provinces · What happens: culminate, grant, expand · To what, where: legal evolution, same administrative status, Kinshasa, communal subdivisions, 11
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kinshasa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legal evolution, provinces), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evolution | nsubj |
| 2 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evolution | amod |
| 3 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | culminated | culminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 evolution | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Ordinance | case |
| 6 | Ordinance | Ordinance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 culminated | obl:agent |
| 7 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 6 Ordinance | flat |
| 8 | 68/024 | 68/024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 January | nummod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 20 | case |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 68/024 | nmod |
| 11 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 culminated | obl |
| 12 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 granted | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 granted | nsubj |
| 15 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 evolution | parataxis |
| 16 | Kinshasa | Kinshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 granted | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 status | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 status | amod |
| 19 | politico | politico | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 administrative | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 politico | punct |
| 21 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 status | amod |
| 22 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 granted | obj |
| 23 | comparable | comparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 granted | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 comparable | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 provinces | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 provinces | det |
| 28 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 that | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 expanding | punct |
| 30 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 31 expanding | advmod |
| 31 | expanding | expand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 provinces | acl |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 subdivisions | nmod:poss |
| 33 | communal | communal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 subdivisions | amod |
| 34 | subdivisions | subdivision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 expanding | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 11 | case |
| 36 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 expanding | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 24 | case |
| 38 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 11 | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 evolution | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | culminate | participle | legal evolution This not said here | january | Ordinance obl:agent | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grant | past | legal evolution This | the same administrative status | Kinshasa | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent kinshasa=Goal status=Theme | |||
| 3 | expand | gerund | the provinces not said here | status's communal subdivisions | 11 to 24 | thus property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subdivision=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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