Manama, sentence 178
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The country's first Education Committee was established by several leading Bahraini merchants, headed by Shaikh Abdulla bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the son of the then-ruler of Bahrain Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa, who acted as the de facto Minister of Education.
Who acts: several leading Bahraini merchants, ruler · What happens: establish, lead, head, act · To what, where: first Education Committee, several leading Bahraini merchants
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Manama». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several leading Bahraini merchants, ruler), 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 | 6 Committee | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 country | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Committee | amod |
| 5 | Education | Education | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Committee | compound |
| 6 | Committee | Committee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 established | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 established | aux:pass |
| 8 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 merchants | case |
| 10 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 merchants | amod |
| 11 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 merchants | amod |
| 12 | Bahraini | Bahraini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 merchants | compound |
| 13 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 established | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 headed | punct |
| 15 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 merchants | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Shaikh | case |
| 17 | Shaikh | Shaikh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 headed | obl:agent |
| 18 | Abdulla | Abdulla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shaikh | flat |
| 19 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shaikh | flat |
| 20 | Isa | Isa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shaikh | flat |
| 21 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Isa | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Khalifa | punct |
| 23 | Khalifa | Khalifa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Isa | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 son | det |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Shaikh | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 ruler | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ruler | det |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 ruler | advmod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 ruler | punct |
| 31 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Bahrain | case |
| 33 | Bahrain | Bahrain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 ruler | nmod |
| 34 | Isa | Isa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Bahrain | flat |
| 35 | ibn | Ibn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Bahrain | flat |
| 36 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Bahrain | flat |
| 37 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Bahrain | flat |
| 38 | Khalifa | Khalifa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Al | flat |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 acted | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 acted | nsubj |
| 41 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 ruler | parataxis |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 de | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 de | det |
| 44 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 acted | obl |
| 45 | facto | facto | ADV | _ | 46 Minister | advmod |
| 46 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 de | acl:relcl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Education | case |
| 48 | Education | Education | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Minister | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | several leading Bahraini merchants | the country's first Education Committee | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | head | participle | several leading Bahraini merchants not said here | Shaikh obl:agent | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | act | past | the ruler of Bahrain | as the de Minister of Education | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as de=Attribute |
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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