Laos, sentence 62
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A British observer described an 1876 Siamese military campaign in Laos as "transformed into slave-hunting raids on a large scale".
Who acts: British observer · What happens: describe, transform · To what, where: 1876 Siamese military campaign, Laos, hunting raids
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Laos». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British observer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 observer | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 observer | amod |
| 3 | observer | observer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | nsubj |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 campaign | det |
| 6 | 1876 | 1876 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 campaign | compound |
| 7 | Siamese | siamese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 campaign | amod |
| 8 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 campaign | amod |
| 9 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Laos | case |
| 11 | Laos | Laos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 campaign | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 transformed | mark |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 transformed | punct |
| 14 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 campaign | acl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 raids | case |
| 16 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunting | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 slave | punct |
| 18 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 raids | compound |
| 19 | raids | raid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 transformed | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 scale | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 scale | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 scale | amod |
| 23 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 transformed | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 scale | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past | a British observer | a 1876 Siamese military campaign | Laos | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent campaign=Theme | |||
| 2 | transform in a quote | participle | a 1876 Siamese military campaign not said here | into hunting raids result; on a large scale | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into raid=Result |
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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