Kiribati, sentence 37
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The name Gilbert, already in the name of the British protectorate since 1892, was incorporated into the name of the entire Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (GEIC) from 1916 and was retained after the Ellice Islands became the separate country of Tuvalu in 1976.
Who acts: Ellice Islands · What happens: incorporate, retain, become, name · To what, where: name, separate country, 1976, British protectorate, entire Gilbert
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 (Ellice Islands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 incorporated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Gilbert | Gilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 name | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 name | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 protectorate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 protectorate | det |
| 11 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 protectorate | amod |
| 12 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 13 | since | since | ADP | _ | 14 1892 | case |
| 14 | 1892 | 1892 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 protectorate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 name | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 incorporated | aux:pass |
| 17 | incorporated | incorporate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 name | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 incorporated | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Gilbert | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Gilbert | det |
| 23 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Gilbert | amod |
| 24 | Gilbert | Gilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Colony | cc |
| 26 | Ellice | Ellice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Islands | compound |
| 27 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Colony | compound |
| 28 | Colony | Colony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Gilbert | conj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 GEIC | punct |
| 30 | GEIC | GEIC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Gilbert | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 GEIC | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 1916 | case |
| 33 | 1916 | 1916 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 incorporated | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 retained | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 retained | aux:pass |
| 36 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 incorporated | conj |
| 37 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 41 became | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Islands | det |
| 39 | Ellice | Ellice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Islands | compound |
| 40 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 41 became | nsubj |
| 41 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 retained | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 country | det |
| 43 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 country | amod |
| 44 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 became | xcomp |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Tuvalu | case |
| 46 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 country | nmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 1976 | case |
| 48 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 became | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 incorporated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incorporate | past · passive | the name and the name of the British protectorate since 1892 | from 1916; into the name of the entire Gilbert and Islands Colony | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient into name=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | retain | past · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | become | past | the Ellice Islands | the separate country of Tuvalu | in 1976 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1976=Result | |||
| 4 | name | the British protectorate since 1892 | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | name | the entire Gilbert and Islands Colony | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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