Lisbon, sentence 234
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The district takes its name from its benefactor, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, who was the minister of Joseph I of Portugal (1750–1777) and a key figure of the Portuguese Enlightenment.
Who acts: district, Sebastião José, 1st Marquis · What happens: take, e, be, name, figure · To what, where: name, benefactor, Melo, minister, Portuguese Enlightenment
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lisbon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (district, Sebastião José, 1st Marquis), 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 | 2 district | det |
| 2 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 benefactor | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 8 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 José | punct |
| 10 | Sebastião | Sebastião | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 José | compound |
| 11 | José | José | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 e | nsubj |
| 12 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 José | flat |
| 13 | Carvalho | Carvalho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 José | flat |
| 14 | e | e | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 takes | parataxis |
| 15 | Melo | Melo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 e | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Marquis | punct |
| 17 | 1st | 1st | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 18 Marquis | amod |
| 18 | Marquis | Marquis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Pombal | case |
| 20 | Pombal | Pombal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Marquis | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 minister | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 minister | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 minister | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 minister | det |
| 25 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Marquis | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Joseph | case |
| 27 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 minister | nmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 minister | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Portugal | case |
| 30 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 I | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 1750 | punct |
| 32 | 1750 | 1750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 Portugal | appos |
| 33 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 34 1777 | case |
| 34 | 1777 | 1777 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 1750 | nmod |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 1750 | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 figure | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 figure | det |
| 38 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 figure | amod |
| 39 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 I | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Enlightenment | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Enlightenment | det |
| 42 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Enlightenment | amod |
| 43 | Enlightenment | enlightenment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 figure | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the district | district's name | district's benefactor | 1st Marquis of Pombal parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent name=Theme from benefactor=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | e | past | Sebastião José | Melo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | 1st Marquis of Pombal | the minister | of Joseph; I conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | district | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | figure | the Portuguese Enlightenment | nom figure «communication 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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