Luxembourg City, sentence 29
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In the 17th century, the first casemates were built; initially, Spain built 23 km of tunnels, starting in 1644.
Who acts: Spain · What happens: build, start · To what, where: first casemates, 23 km, 1644
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luxembourg City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spain), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 casemates | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 casemates | amod |
| 8 | casemates | casemate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 12 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 15 built | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 initially | punct |
| 14 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 built | nsubj |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | conj |
| 16 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 km | nummod |
| 17 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 built | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tunnels | case |
| 19 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 km | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 starting | punct |
| 21 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 built | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1644 | case |
| 23 | 1644 | 1644 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 starting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the first casemates | century | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | build | past | Spain | 23 km of tunnels | initially property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent km=Product | |||
| 3 | start | gerund | Spain not said here | 1644 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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