Kiribati, sentence 33
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Gilbert and captain John Marshall sighted some of the islands in 1788, while charting the "outer passage" route from Port Jackson to Canton.
Who acts: Gilbert · What happens: sight, chart · To what, where: islands, 1788, passage route, Canton, Port
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: who acts (Gilbert), 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 | Gilbert | gilbert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sighted | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 captain | cc |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gilbert | conj |
| 4 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 captain | appos |
| 5 | Marshall | Marshall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 John | flat |
| 6 | sighted | sight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 islands | det |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 islands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islands | det |
| 10 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sighted | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1788 | case |
| 12 | 1788 | 1788 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 sighted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 charting | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 charting | mark |
| 15 | charting | chart | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sighted | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 route | det |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 passage | punct |
| 18 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 passage | amod |
| 19 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 route | compound |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 passage | punct |
| 21 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 charting | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Port | case |
| 23 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 route | nmod |
| 24 | Jackson | Jackson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Port | flat |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Canton | case |
| 26 | Canton | Canton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 charting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sight | past | Gilbert and captain | some islands | 1788 | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | chart | gerund | Gilbert and captain not said here | the passage route | Canton | Port | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=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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