Moldova, sentence 118
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Nevertheless, the Constitutional Court ruled on 4 March 2016 that this constitutional change adopted in 2000 regarding the presidential election was unconstitutional, thus reverting the election method of the president to a two-round direct election.
Who acts: Constitutional Court, constitutional change · What happens: rule, adopt, regard, be, revert · To what, where: constitutional change, 2000, presidential election, election method
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moldova». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Constitutional Court, constitutional change), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 6 ruled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Court | det |
| 4 | Constitutional | Constitutional | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Court | compound |
| 5 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | nsubj |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 March | case |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 March | nummod |
| 9 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obl |
| 10 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 March | flat |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 unconstitutional | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 change | det |
| 13 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 change | amod |
| 14 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unconstitutional | nsubj |
| 15 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 change | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 2000 | case |
| 17 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 adopted | obl |
| 18 | regarding | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 change | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 election | det |
| 20 | presidential | presidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 election | amod |
| 21 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 regarding | obj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 unconstitutional | cop |
| 23 | unconstitutional | unconstitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ruled | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reverting | punct |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 26 reverting | advmod |
| 26 | reverting | revert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 unconstitutional | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 method | det |
| 28 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 method | compound |
| 29 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reverting | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 president | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 president | det |
| 32 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 method | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 election | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 election | det |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 round | nummod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 two | punct |
| 37 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 election | amod |
| 38 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 election | amod |
| 39 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reverting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the Constitutional Court | march | nevertheless property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | adopt | participle | this constitutional change not said here | 2000 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | regard | gerund | this constitutional change not said here | the presidential election | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this constitutional change | unconstitutional property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | revert | gerund | this constitutional change not said here | the election method of the president | to a round direct election; thus property | tree rules |
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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