Liberia, sentence 319
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On July 20, 2012, the Liberian senate voted unanimously to enact legislation to prohibit and criminalize same-sex marriages.
Who acts: Liberian senate · What happens: vote, enact, prohibit, criminalize · To what, where: 20, legislation, sex marriages
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Liberia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Liberian senate), 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 | _ | 3 20 | case |
| 2 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 20 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 voted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 2012 | punct |
| 5 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 20 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 20 | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 senate | det |
| 8 | Liberian | liberian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 senate | amod |
| 9 | senate | senate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voted | nsubj |
| 10 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | unanimously | unanimously | ADV | _ | 10 voted | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 enact | mark |
| 13 | enact | enact | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 voted | advcl |
| 14 | legislation | legislation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enact | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 prohibit | mark |
| 16 | prohibit | prohibit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 enact | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 criminalize | cc |
| 18 | criminalize | criminalize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prohibit | conj |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sex | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 same | punct |
| 21 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marriages | compound |
| 22 | marriages | marriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 criminalize | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 voted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | past | the Liberian senate | 20 July | unanimously property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | enact | to-infinitive | the Liberian senate not said here | legislation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prohibit | to-infinitive | the Liberian senate not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 4 | criminalize | infinitive | the Liberian senate not said here | sex marriages | 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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