Lobamba, sentence 46
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Many of the roads in Eswatini are unsurfaced, but there are good roads that connect principal towns, including the MR3 highway and MR103 road.
Who acts: Many, good roads · What happens: be, connect · To what, where: good roads, principal towns
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lobamba». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, good roads), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 unsurfaced | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 roads | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roads | det |
| 4 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Many | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Eswatini | case |
| 6 | Eswatini | Eswatini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 roads | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 unsurfaced | cop |
| 8 | unsurfaced | unsurfaced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roads | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 are | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 roads | cop |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 roads | amod |
| 14 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unsurfaced | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 connect | nsubj |
| 16 | connect | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 roads | acl:relcl |
| 17 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 towns | amod |
| 18 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 connect | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 highway | punct |
| 20 | including | including | ADP | _ | 23 highway | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 highway | det |
| 22 | MR3 | MR3 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 highway | compound |
| 23 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 towns | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 road | cc |
| 25 | MR103 | MR103 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 road | compound |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 highway | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unsurfaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many of the roads in Eswatini | unsurfaced property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | good roads | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | connect | present | good roads | principal towns | including the MR3 highway and MR103 road | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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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