Kiribati, sentence 95
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On 1 January 1953, the British Western Pacific High Commissioner of the colony was transferred from Fiji to the new capital of Honiara, to the British Solomon Islands, with the Gilberts' Resident Commissioner still located in Tarawa.
What happens: transfer, locate · To what, where: British Pacific High Commissioner, 1, Resident Commissioner, Tarawa
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 1 | case |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 transferred | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 1953 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1953 | 1953 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1 | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Commissioner | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Commissioner | amod |
| 8 | Western | Western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Pacific | amod |
| 9 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Commissioner | compound |
| 10 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Commissioner | amod |
| 11 | Commissioner | commissioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transferred | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 colony | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 colony | det |
| 14 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Commissioner | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 transferred | aux:pass |
| 16 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Fiji | case |
| 18 | Fiji | Fiji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 transferred | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 capital | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 capital | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 capital | amod |
| 22 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transferred | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Honiara | case |
| 24 | Honiara | Honiara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 capital | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Islands | punct |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Islands | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Islands | det |
| 28 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Islands | amod |
| 29 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Islands | compound |
| 30 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 transferred | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Commissioner | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 Commissioner | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Gilberts | det |
| 34 | Gilberts | Gilbert | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 Commissioner | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 34 Gilberts | case |
| 36 | Resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Commissioner | compound |
| 37 | Commissioner | commissioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 transferred | obl |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 located | advmod |
| 39 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 Commissioner | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Tarawa | case |
| 41 | Tarawa | Tarawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 located | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 transferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transfer | past · passive | the British Pacific High Commissioner of the colony | 1 | from Fiji; to the new capital of Honiara; to the British Solomon Islands; with the Gilberts's Resident Commissioner | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from fiji=Initial_Location to capital=Destination | |||
| 2 | locate | participle | the Gilberts's Resident Commissioner not said here | Tarawa | still | tree rules |
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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