Mauritius, sentence 60
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In 1723, the Code Noir was established to regulate slavery; it categorised one group of human beings as "goods", allowing the owner of these "goods" to be able to obtain insurance money and compensation in case of loss of his "goods".
Who acts: Noir · What happens: establish, regulate, categoris, allow, be, obtain · To what, where: Code Noir, 1723, slavery, one group, owner, insurance money
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 (Noir), 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 | _ | 2 1723 | case |
| 2 | 1723 | 1723 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 established | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1723 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Noir | det |
| 5 | Code | Code | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Noir | compound |
| 6 | Noir | Noir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 established | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 established | aux:pass |
| 8 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 regulate | mark |
| 10 | regulate | regulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 established | xcomp |
| 11 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 regulate | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 categorised | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 categorised | nsubj |
| 14 | categorised | categoris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 established | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 group | nummod |
| 16 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 categorised | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 beings | case |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beings | amod |
| 19 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 group | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 goods | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 goods | punct |
| 22 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 categorised | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 categorised | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 allowing | punct |
| 25 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 categorised | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 owner | det |
| 27 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 allowing | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 goods | case |
| 29 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 goods | det |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 goods | punct |
| 31 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 27 owner | nmod |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 owner | punct |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 able | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 able | cop |
| 35 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 allowing | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 obtain | mark |
| 37 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 able | xcomp |
| 38 | insurance | insurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 money | compound |
| 39 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 obtain | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 compensation | cc |
| 41 | compensation | compensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 money | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 case | case |
| 43 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 obtain | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 loss | case |
| 45 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 case | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 goods | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 goods | nmod:poss |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 goods | punct |
| 49 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 45 loss | nmod |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 goods | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | past · passive | the Code Noir | 1723 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | regulate | to-infinitive | slavery | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | categoris | past | Noir | one group of human beings | as goods | tree rules | |||
| 4 | allow | gerund | Noir not said here | the owner of this goods | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | Noir not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | obtain | to-infinitive | Noir not said here | insurance money and compensation | case of loss of France's goods | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=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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