Lima, sentence 116
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the construction of avenues that would serve as a matrix for the development of the city began.
Who acts: construction, development · What happens: serve, begin, construct · To what, where: beginning, 20th century, avenues
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lima». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (construction, development), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 beginning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beginning | det |
| 3 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 century | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 century | det |
| 6 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 7 century | amod |
| 7 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beginning | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beginning | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 construction | det |
| 10 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 avenues | case |
| 12 | avenues | avenue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 construction | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 serve | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 serve | aux |
| 15 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 matrix | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 matrix | det |
| 18 | matrix | matrix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 serve | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 development | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 development | det |
| 21 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 matrix | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 city | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 began | obl |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 development | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | would | the construction of avenues | at the beginning of the 20th century | as a matrix for the development; that nsubj | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as matrix=Attribute | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the development not said here | of the city | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | begin | the 20th century | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | construct | avenues | nom construction «act transitive»: 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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