Kuwait, sentence 63
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In the latter half of the eighteenth century, Kuwait began establishing itself as a maritime port and gradually became a principal commercial center for the transit of goods between Baghdad, India, Persia, Muscat, and the Arabian Peninsula.
Who acts: Kuwait · What happens: begin, establish, become · To what, where: latter half, half, principal commercial center
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuwait». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kuwait), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 half | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 half | det |
| 3 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 half | amod |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 began | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 century | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 century | det |
| 7 | eighteenth | eighteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 century | amod |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 half | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| 10 | Kuwait | Kuwait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | establishing | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 began | xcomp |
| 13 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 establishing | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 port | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 port | det |
| 16 | maritime | maritime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 port | amod |
| 17 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 establishing | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 19 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 20 became | advmod |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 center | det |
| 22 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 center | amod |
| 23 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 center | amod |
| 24 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 transit | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 transit | det |
| 27 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 center | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 goods | case |
| 29 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 27 transit | nmod |
| 30 | between | between | ADP | _ | 31 Baghdad | case |
| 31 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 goods | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 India | punct |
| 33 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Baghdad | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Persia | punct |
| 35 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Baghdad | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Muscat | punct |
| 37 | Muscat | Muscat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Baghdad | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Peninsula | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Peninsula | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Peninsula | det |
| 41 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Peninsula | amod |
| 42 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 became | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Kuwait | the latter half of the eighteenth century | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | establish | gerund | Kuwait not said here | half | as a maritime port | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | past | Kuwait not said here | a principal commercial center for the transit of goods between Baghdad and India and Persia and Muscat | the Arabian Peninsula obl; gradually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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