Maseru, sentence 13
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During their rule between 1871 and 1884, Basutoland was treated similarly to territories that had been forcefully annexed, much to the chagrin of the Basotho.
Who acts: capital · What happens: treat, annex, rule, chagrin · To what, where: Basutoland, territories, Basotho
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 (capital), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 rule | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 rule | nmod:poss |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 treated | obl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 1871 | case |
| 5 | 1871 | 1871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 rule | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 1884 | cc |
| 7 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1871 | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rule | punct |
| 9 | Basutoland | Basutoland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 treated | aux:pass |
| 11 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | similarly | similarly | ADV | _ | 11 treated | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 territories | case |
| 14 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 treated | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 annexed | obj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 annexed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 annexed | aux:pass |
| 18 | forcefully | forcefully | ADV | _ | 19 annexed | advmod |
| 19 | annexed | annex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 territories | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 chagrin | punct |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 chagrin | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 chagrin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chagrin | det |
| 24 | chagrin | chagrin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 treated | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Basotho | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Basotho | det |
| 27 | Basotho | Basotho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 chagrin | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past · passive | Basutoland | during capital's rule between 1871 | to territories; the chagrin of the Basotho parataxis; similarly property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme to territory=be' | |||
| 2 | annex | past · perfect · passive | territories | forcefully property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rule | capital | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | chagrin | the Basotho | nom chagrin «feeling 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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