Kiribati, sentence 192
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From 1973 until 2008, almost 500 US Peace Corps volunteers were based on the Islands, as many as 45 in a given year.
What happens: base, give · To what, where: 500 Corps volunteers, 1973
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kiribati». 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1973 | case |
| 2 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 based | obl |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 2008 | case |
| 4 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1973 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1973 | punct |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 500 | advmod |
| 7 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 volunteers | nummod |
| 8 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Peace | compound |
| 9 | Peace | Peace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Corps | compound |
| 10 | Corps | Corps | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 volunteers | compound |
| 11 | volunteers | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 based | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 based | aux:pass |
| 13 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Islands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Islands | det |
| 16 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 based | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 many | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 based | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 45 | case |
| 21 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 many | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 year | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 year | det |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 year | amod |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 many | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 based | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | past · passive | 500 Corps volunteers | 1973 until 2008 | on the Islands; many as 45 in a given year obl | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on island=Source | |||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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