Mauritius, sentence 182
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In January 1968, six weeks before the declaration of independence the 1968 Mauritian riots occurred in Port Louis, leading to the deaths of 25 people.
Who acts: six weeks, 25 people · What happens: occur, lead, declare, die · To what, where: 1968, independence
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 (six weeks, 25 people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1968 | case |
| 2 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 1968 | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 occurred | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 1968 | punct |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 weeks | nummod |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 occurred | nsubj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 declaration | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 declaration | det |
| 9 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weeks | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 independence | case |
| 11 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declaration | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 riots | det |
| 13 | 1968 | 1968 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 riots | nummod |
| 14 | Mauritian | mauritian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 riots | amod |
| 15 | riots | riot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 occurred | nsubj |
| 16 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Port | case |
| 18 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 occurred | obl |
| 19 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Port | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leading | punct |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 occurred | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 deaths | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 deaths | det |
| 24 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leading | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 people | nummod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deaths | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | six weeks before the declaration of independence | 1968 January | in Port; the 1968 Mauritian riots nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1968=Location | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | six weeks before the declaration of independence not said here | to the deaths of 25 people | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to death=Patient | ||||
| 3 | declare | independence | nom declaration «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | die | 25 people | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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