Mauritius, sentence 137
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The Uba riots of 1937 resulted in reforms by the local British government that improved labour conditions and led to the un-banning of labour unions.
Who acts: local British government · What happens: result, improve, lead · To what, where: Uba riots, reforms, labour conditions
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 (local British government), 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 | 3 riots | det |
| 2 | Uba | Uba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 riots | compound |
| 3 | riots | riot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 1937 | case |
| 5 | 1937 | 1937 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 riots | nmod |
| 6 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 riots | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 reforms | case |
| 8 | reforms | reform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 resulted | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 government | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 government | det |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 government | amod |
| 12 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 government | amod |
| 13 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 resulted | obl:agent |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 improved | nsubj |
| 15 | improved | improve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 government | acl:relcl |
| 16 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conditions | compound |
| 17 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 improved | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 led | cc |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 improved | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 un-banning | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 un-banning | det |
| 22 | un-banning | un-banning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 unions | case |
| 24 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 unions | compound |
| 25 | unions | union | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 un-banning | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 riots | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | participle | the Uba riots of 1937 not said here | reforms | the local British government obl:agent | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reform=Location | |||
| 2 | improve | past | the local British government | labour conditions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent condition=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the local British government not said here | to the un-banning of labour unions | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to un-banning=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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