Mauritius, sentence 193
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Malaria had once forced a significant portion of the population to move from the coastal regions to the Central Plateau in the late 19th century.
Who acts: Malaria · What happens: force, move · To what, where: Malaria, coastal regions
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 (Malaria), 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 | Malaria | Malaria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forced | aux |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 forced | advmod |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 portion | det |
| 6 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 portion | amod |
| 7 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forced | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 population | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 population | det |
| 10 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 portion | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 move | mark |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | xcomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 regions | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 regions | det |
| 15 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 regions | amod |
| 16 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 move | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Plateau | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Plateau | det |
| 19 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Plateau | flat |
| 20 | Plateau | Plateau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 regions | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 century | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 century | det |
| 23 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 century | amod |
| 24 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 25 century | amod |
| 25 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 move | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · perfect · passive | Malaria | a significant portion of the population obj; once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | Malaria not said here | the coastal regions to the Central Plateau | century | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from region=Trajectory |
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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