Kosovo, sentence 249
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On 8 October 2008, the UN General Assembly resolved, on a proposal by Serbia, to ask the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence.
Who acts: UN General Assembly, Serbia, Kosovo · What happens: resolve, ask, render, propose, declare · To what, where: 8, International Court, advisory opinion, legality, independence
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kosovo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UN General Assembly, Serbia, Kosovo), 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 8 | case |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 resolved | obl |
| 3 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2008 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 8 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Assembly | det |
| 7 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Assembly | compound |
| 8 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Assembly | flat |
| 9 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 resolved | nsubj |
| 10 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proposal | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 proposal | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 proposal | det |
| 14 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resolved | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Serbia | case |
| 16 | Serbia | Serbia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 proposal | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ask | mark |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 resolved | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Court | det |
| 21 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Court | amod |
| 22 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Justice | case |
| 24 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Court | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 render | mark |
| 26 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | xcomp |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 opinion | det |
| 28 | advisory | advisory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 opinion | amod |
| 29 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 render | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 legality | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 legality | det |
| 32 | legality | legality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 render | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 declaration | case |
| 34 | Kosovo | Kosovo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 declaration | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Kosovo | case |
| 36 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 legality | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 independence | case |
| 38 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 declaration | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | the UN General Assembly | 8 | on a proposal by Serbia | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the UN General Assembly not said here | the International Court of Justice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent court=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | render not said to happen | to-infinitive | the UN General Assembly not said here | a advisory opinion | the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | |||
| 4 | propose | Serbia | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: by=agent | ||||||
| 5 | declare | Kosovo | independence | nom declaration «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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