Malaysia, sentence 41
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In 1850, the English ethnologist George Samuel Windsor Earl, writing in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, proposed naming the islands of Southeast Asia as "Melayunesia" or "Indunesia", favouring the former.
Who acts: George · What happens: write, propose, name, favour · To what, where: Journal, 1850, islands, former
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | _ | 2 1850 | case |
| 2 | 1850 | 1850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 proposed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1850 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ethnologist | det |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ethnologist | amod |
| 6 | ethnologist | ethnologist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 George | nmod:desc |
| 7 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 proposed | nsubj |
| 8 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 George | flat |
| 9 | Windsor | Windsor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 George | flat |
| 10 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 George | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 writing | punct |
| 12 | writing | write | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 George | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Journal | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Journal | det |
| 15 | Journal | Journal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 writing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Archipelago | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Archipelago | det |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Archipelago | amod |
| 19 | Archipelago | Archipelago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Journal | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Asia | cc |
| 21 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Asia | compound |
| 22 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Archipelago | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 George | punct |
| 24 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | naming | name | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 proposed | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 islands | det |
| 27 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 naming | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Asia | case |
| 29 | Southeast | Southeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Asia | compound |
| 30 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 islands | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 Melayunesia | case |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Melayunesia | punct |
| 33 | Melayunesia | Melayunesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 naming | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Melayunesia | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 Indunesia | cc |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Indunesia | punct |
| 37 | Indunesia | Indunesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Melayunesia | conj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Indunesia | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 favouring | punct |
| 40 | favouring | favour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 naming | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 former | det |
| 42 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 favouring | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | gerund | George the English ethnologist not said here | the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | propose | past | George the English ethnologist | 1850 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | gerund | George the English ethnologist not said here | the islands of Southeast Asia | as Melayunesia or Indunesia | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent island=Theme as melayunesia=Attribute | |||
| 4 | favour | gerund | George the English ethnologist not said here | the former | tree rules |
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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