Lusaka, sentence 46
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Maxwell and Alexander then investigated possible sites for the new city, eventually choosing Lusaka as a result of its situation on the railway and at the crossroads of Northern Rhodesia's Great North Road and Great East Road.
Who acts: Maxwell · What happens: investigate, choose, result · To what, where: possible sites, Lusaka, railway, situation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lusaka». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maxwell), 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 | Maxwell | Maxwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 investigated | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Alexander | cc |
| 3 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Maxwell | conj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 investigated | advmod |
| 5 | investigated | investigate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sites | amod |
| 7 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 investigated | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 investigated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 choosing | punct |
| 13 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 14 choosing | advmod |
| 14 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 investigated | advcl |
| 15 | Lusaka | Lusaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 choosing | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 result | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 result | det |
| 18 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choosing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 situation | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 situation | nmod:poss |
| 21 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 result | nmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 railway | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 railway | det |
| 24 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choosing | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 crossroads | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 crossroads | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crossroads | det |
| 28 | crossroads | crossroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 railway | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Road | case |
| 30 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Rhodesia | amod |
| 31 | Rhodesia | Rhodesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Road | compound |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Rhodesia | case |
| 33 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Road | amod |
| 34 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Road | compound |
| 35 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 crossroads | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Road | cc |
| 37 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Road | amod |
| 38 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Road | compound |
| 39 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Road | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 investigated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | investigate | past | Maxwell and Alexander | possible sites | then | for the new city | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent site=Theme for city=Attribute | ||
| 2 | choose | gerund | Maxwell and Alexander not said here | Lusaka | the railway and the crossroads of Rhodesia Great North Road and Great East Road | as a result of result's situation; eventually property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lusaka=Theme | ||
| 3 | result | result's situation | nom result «phenomenon 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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