Kosovo, sentence 69
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The first clear mention of Christians in literature is the case of Bishop Dacus of Macedonia, from Dardania, who was present at the First Council of Nicaea (325).
Who acts: first clear mention, case · What happens: be, mention · To what, where: case, First Council, Christians, literature
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 (first clear mention, case), 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 | 4 mention | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 mention | amod |
| 3 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mention | amod |
| 4 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 case | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Christians | case |
| 6 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 mention | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 literature | case |
| 8 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mention | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 case | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 case | det |
| 11 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bishop | case |
| 13 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 case | nmod |
| 14 | Dacus | Dacus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bishop | flat |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Macedonia | case |
| 16 | Macedonia | Macedonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dacus | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dardania | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Dardania | case |
| 19 | Dardania | Dardania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bishop | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 present | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 present | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 present | cop |
| 23 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 case | parataxis |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Council | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Council | det |
| 26 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 Council | amod |
| 27 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 present | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Nicaea | case |
| 29 | Nicaea | Nicaea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Council | nmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 325 | punct |
| 31 | 325 | 325 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 Council | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 325 | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 case | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the first clear mention of Christians in literature | the case | of Bishop and Dardania | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the case | the First Council of Nicaea | present property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mention | Christians | literature | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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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