Madagascar, sentence 312
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The country was not permitted to attend the first African Union summit because of a dispute over the results of the 2001 presidential election, but rejoined the Union in July 2003 after a 14-month hiatus.
What happens: not permit, attend, rejoin, result · To what, where: country, first Union summit, results, Union, 2001 presidential election
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Madagascar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 permitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 permitted | advmod |
| 5 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 attend | mark |
| 7 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 permitted | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 summit | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 summit | amod |
| 10 | African | African | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Union | compound |
| 11 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 summit | compound |
| 12 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attend | obj |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 16 dispute | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 because | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dispute | det |
| 16 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attend | obl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 results | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 results | det |
| 19 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 attend | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 election | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 election | det |
| 22 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 election | nummod |
| 23 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 election | amod |
| 24 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 results | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rejoined | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 rejoined | cc |
| 27 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 permitted | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Union | det |
| 29 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 rejoined | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 July | case |
| 31 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 rejoined | obl |
| 32 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 hiatus | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hiatus | det |
| 35 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 month | nummod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 14 | punct |
| 37 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hiatus | compound |
| 38 | hiatus | hiatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rejoined | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit | past · passive | the country | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | attend not said to happen | to-infinitive | the first Union summit | the results of the 2001 presidential election | because a dispute | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme summit=Goal | |||
| 3 | rejoin | past | the Union | after a month hiatus; july | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=Patient | ||||
| 4 | result | the 2001 presidential election | 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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