Mauritius, sentence 248
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On 21 January 2017, Sir Anerood Jugnauth announced his resignation and that his son and Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth would assume the office of prime minister.
Who acts: Anerood, son, Sir · What happens: announce, assume, resign · To what, where: resignation, 21, office
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 (Anerood, son, Sir), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 21 | case |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 announced | obl |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2017 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 21 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Anerood | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Anerood | Anerood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 announced | nsubj |
| 8 | Jugnauth | Jugnauth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Anerood | flat |
| 9 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 resignation | nmod:poss |
| 11 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announced | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 assume | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 assume | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 assume | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Pravind | cc |
| 17 | Finance | Finance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Minister | compound |
| 18 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pravind | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Pravind | Pravind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | appos |
| 20 | Jugnauth | Jugnauth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Pravind | flat |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 assume | aux |
| 22 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 announced | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 office | det |
| 24 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 assume | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 minister | case |
| 26 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 minister | amod |
| 27 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 office | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Anerood Sir | Sir's resignation | 21 2017 January | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resignation=Theme | |||
| 2 | assume | would | Sir's son | the office of prime minister | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme | ||||
| 3 | resign | Sir | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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