Kiribati, sentence 368
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Many other loanwords have been adopted (like buun, spoon, moko, smoke, beeki, pig, batoro, bottle) but some typical Gilbertese words are quite common, even for Western objects (like wanikiba, plane – the flying canoe, rebwerebwe, motorbike – for the motor noise, kauniwae, shoes – the cow for the feet).
Who acts: typical Gilbertese words · What happens: adopt, be, fly · To what, where: Many other loanwords
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 (typical Gilbertese words), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loanwords | amod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loanwords | amod |
| 3 | loanwords | loanword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 adopted | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 adopted | aux:pass |
| 6 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 buun | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 buun | case |
| 9 | buun | buun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adopted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoon | punct |
| 11 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buun | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moko | punct |
| 13 | moko | moko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buun | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smoke | punct |
| 15 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buun | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beeki | punct |
| 17 | beeki | beeki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buun | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pig | punct |
| 19 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buun | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 batoro | punct |
| 21 | batoro | batoro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buun | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bottle | punct |
| 23 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buun | conj |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 buun | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 common | cc |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 words | det |
| 27 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 words | amod |
| 28 | Gilbertese | gilbertese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 words | amod |
| 29 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 common | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 common | cop |
| 31 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 32 common | advmod |
| 32 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adopted | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 objects | punct |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 37 objects | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 objects | case |
| 36 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 objects | amod |
| 37 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 common | obl |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 wanikiba | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 wanikiba | case |
| 40 | wanikiba | wanikiba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 objects | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 plane | punct |
| 42 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wanikiba | conj |
| 43 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 canoe | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 canoe | det |
| 45 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 canoe | amod |
| 46 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wanikiba | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 rebwerebwe | punct |
| 48 | rebwerebwe | rebwerebwe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 canoe | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 motorbike | punct |
| 50 | motorbike | motorbike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wanikiba | conj |
| 51 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 noise | punct |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 55 noise | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 noise | det |
| 54 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 noise | compound |
| 55 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 objects | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 kauniwae | punct |
| 57 | kauniwae | kauniwae | X | Foreign=Yes | 55 noise | appos |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 shoes | punct |
| 59 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 noise | appos |
| 60 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 62 cow | punct |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 cow | det |
| 62 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 shoes | conj |
| 63 | for | for | ADP | _ | 65 feet | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 feet | det |
| 65 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 cow | nmod |
| 66 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 59 shoes | punct |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | present · perfect · passive | Many other loanwords | buun and spoon and moko and smoke and beeki and pig and batoro and bottle obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme buun=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | present | some typical Gilbertese words | for Western objects and wanikiba and plane and the flying canoe and rebwerebwe and motorbike and the motor noise; common property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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