Mauritius, sentence 180
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Later in 1965, after the Lancaster Conference, the Chagos Archipelago was excised from the territory of Mauritius to form the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
What happens: excise, form · To what, where: Chagos Archipelago, territory, British Indian Ocean Territory
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: 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 excised | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1965 | case |
| 3 | 1965 | 1965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Later | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Later | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 Conference | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Conference | det |
| 7 | Lancaster | Lancaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Conference | compound |
| 8 | Conference | Conference | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 excised | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Conference | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Archipelago | det |
| 11 | Chagos | Chagos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Archipelago | compound |
| 12 | Archipelago | Archipelago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 excised | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 excised | aux:pass |
| 14 | excised | excise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 territory | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 territory | det |
| 17 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 excised | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mauritius | case |
| 19 | Mauritius | Mauritius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 territory | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 form | mark |
| 21 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 excised | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Territory | det |
| 23 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Territory | amod |
| 24 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Territory | amod |
| 25 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Territory | compound |
| 26 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 form | obj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 BIOT | punct |
| 28 | BIOT | biot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Territory | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 BIOT | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 excised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excise | past · passive | the Chagos Archipelago | the territory of Mauritius | after the Lancaster Conference | late property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from territory=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | form | to-infinitive | the British Indian Ocean Territory | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location territory=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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