Mauritius, sentence 131
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Many sugar estates closed down, marking the end of an era for the sugar magnates who had not only controlled the economy but also the political life of the country.
Who acts: Many sugar estates, sugar magnates · What happens: close down, mark, have, not control · To what, where: Many sugar estates, end, economy
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many sugar estates, sugar magnates), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 estates | amod |
| 2 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 estates | compound |
| 3 | estates | estate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 estates | acl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 closed | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 marking | punct |
| 7 | marking | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 estates | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marking | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 era | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 era | det |
| 12 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 magnates | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 magnates | det |
| 15 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 magnates | compound |
| 16 | magnates | magnate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 marking | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 magnates | acl:relcl |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 controlled | advmod |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 controlled | advmod |
| 21 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 had | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 economy | det |
| 23 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 controlled | obj |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 life | cc |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 life | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 life | det |
| 27 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 life | amod |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 controlled | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 country | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 country | det |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 life | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 estates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close down | participle | Many sugar estates not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mark | gerund | Many sugar estates not said here | the end of a era | for the sugar magnates | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past | the sugar magnates | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not control | participle | the sugar magnates not said here | the economy | the political life of the country conj | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent economy=Theme |
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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