Montevideo, sentence 324
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However, under siege from forces from Buenos Aires, the Portuguese withdrew from Montevideo Bay in January 1724, after signing an agreement with the Spaniards.
Who acts: Portuguese · What happens: withdraw, sign · To what, where: siege, agreement
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Montevideo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 13 withdrew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 siege | case |
| 4 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 withdrew | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 forces | case |
| 6 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 siege | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Buenos | case |
| 8 | Buenos | Buenos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 forces | nmod |
| 9 | Aires | Aires | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Buenos | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 siege | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Portuguese | det |
| 12 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 withdrew | nsubj |
| 13 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Bay | case |
| 15 | Montevideo | Montevideo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bay | compound |
| 16 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 withdrew | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 January | case |
| 18 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 withdrew | obl |
| 19 | 1724 | 1724 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 signing | punct |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 signing | mark |
| 22 | signing | sign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 withdrew | advcl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 agreement | det |
| 24 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 signing | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 Spaniards | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Spaniards | det |
| 27 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 agreement | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | the Portuguese | siege from forces from Buenos | january | from Montevideo Bay; however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bay=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | sign | gerund | the Portuguese not said here | a agreement | with the Spaniards | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent agreement=Destination with spaniard=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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