Mogadishu, sentence 74
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The name Madageiscar was first recorded in the memoirs of 13th-century Venetian explorer Marco Polo as a corrupted transliteration of the name Mogadishu, the famous port with which Polo had confused the island.
What happens: record, corrupt, confuse, transliterate · To what, where: name, memoirs, Polo
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mogadishu». 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Madageiscar | Madageiscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recorded | aux:pass |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 recorded | advmod |
| 6 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 memoirs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 memoirs | det |
| 9 | memoirs | memoir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 recorded | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 explorer | case |
| 11 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 13 century | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 13th | punct |
| 13 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 explorer | compound |
| 14 | Venetian | venetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 explorer | amod |
| 15 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 memoirs | nmod |
| 16 | Marco | Marco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 explorer | appos |
| 17 | Polo | Polo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Marco | flat |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 transliteration | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 transliteration | det |
| 20 | corrupted | corrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 transliteration | amod |
| 21 | transliteration | transliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recorded | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 name | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 name | det |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 transliteration | nmod |
| 25 | Mogadishu | Mogadishu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 name | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 port | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 port | det |
| 28 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 port | amod |
| 29 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 transliteration | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 confused | obl |
| 32 | Polo | Polo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 confused | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 confused | aux |
| 34 | confused | confuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 port | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 island | det |
| 36 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 confused | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | past · passive | the name | the memoirs of century Venetian explorer | as a corrupted transliteration of the name and the famous port; first property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in memoir=Destination | |||
| 2 | corrupt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | confuse | past · perfect · passive | Polo | with the famous port; the island obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer island=Result | ||||
| 4 | transliterate | the name | nom transliteration «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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