Maseru, sentence 12
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Maseru initially functioned as the state's administrative capital between 1869 and 1871, before administration of Basutoland was transferred to the Cape Colony.
Who acts: Maseru · What happens: function, transfer, administer · To what, where: administration, Cape Colony, Basutoland
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maseru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maseru), 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 | Maseru | Maseru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 functioned | nsubj |
| 2 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 3 functioned | advmod |
| 3 | functioned | function | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 capital | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 capital | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 state | case |
| 8 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 capital | amod |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 functioned | obl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 1869 | case |
| 11 | 1869 | 1869 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 functioned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 1871 | cc |
| 13 | 1871 | 1871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 1869 | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 transferred | punct |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 transferred | mark |
| 16 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 transferred | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Basutoland | case |
| 18 | Basutoland | Basutoland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 administration | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 transferred | aux:pass |
| 20 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 functioned | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Colony | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Colony | det |
| 23 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Colony | compound |
| 24 | Colony | Colony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 transferred | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 functioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | function | participle | Maseru | as the state's administrative capital; between 1869; initially property | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as capital=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | transfer | past · passive | administration of Basutoland | the Cape Colony | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to colony=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | administer | Basutoland | nom administration «act 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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