Lomé, sentence 17
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Togoland was thus created as an entity of international law within the German colonial empire on 5 July 1884, by the Treaty of Togoville, signed by Gustav Nachtigal and King Mlapa III.
Who acts: Treaty · What happens: create, sign · To what, where: Togoland, Treaty
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lomé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Treaty), 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 | Togoland | Togoland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 created | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 created | aux:pass |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 created | advmod |
| 4 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 entity | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 entity | det |
| 7 | entity | entity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 created | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 law | case |
| 9 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 law | amod |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entity | nmod |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 empire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 empire | det |
| 13 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 empire | amod |
| 14 | colonial | colonial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 empire | compound |
| 15 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 created | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 5 | case |
| 17 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 empire | nmod |
| 18 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 5 | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 5 | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Treaty | punct |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Treaty | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Treaty | det |
| 23 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 created | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Togoville | case |
| 25 | Togoville | Togoville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Treaty | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 signed | punct |
| 27 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Treaty | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Gustav | case |
| 29 | Gustav | Gustav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 signed | obl:agent |
| 30 | Nachtigal | Nachtigal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Gustav | flat |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 King | cc |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Gustav | conj |
| 33 | Mlapa | Mlapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 King | flat |
| 34 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 29 Gustav | list |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past · passive | the Treaty of Togoville | Togoland | as a entity of international law; within the German colonial empire on 5 July; thus property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Result as entity=Attribute | |||
| 2 | sign | participle | the Treaty of Togoville not said here | Gustav and King obl:agent | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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