Kiribati, sentence 67
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Fr Joseph Leray, Fr Edward Bontemps and Brother Conrad Weber, who were Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, arrived on Nonouti in 1888.
Who acts: Fr Edward Bontemps, Fr Joseph · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: Missionaries, Nonouti
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 (Fr Edward Bontemps, Fr Joseph), 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 | Fr | Fr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Joseph | compound |
| 2 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | Leray | Leray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Joseph | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bontemps | punct |
| 5 | Fr | Fr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bontemps | compound |
| 6 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bontemps | compound |
| 7 | Bontemps | Bontemps | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Joseph | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Brother | cc |
| 9 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bontemps | conj |
| 10 | Conrad | Conrad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brother | flat |
| 11 | Weber | Weber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brother | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Missionaries | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 Missionaries | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Missionaries | cop |
| 15 | Missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Bontemps | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Heart | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Heart | det |
| 18 | Sacred | Sacred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Heart | compound |
| 19 | Heart | Heart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Missionaries | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Joseph | punct |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Nonouti | case |
| 23 | Nonouti | Nonouti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1888 | case |
| 25 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 arrived | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fr Edward Bontemps and Brother and Missionaries | Missionaries | of the Sacred Heart | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | Fr Joseph and Fr Edward Bontemps and Brother and Missionaries | Nonouti | in 1888 | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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