Mozambique, sentence 40
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In the central part of the Mozambique territory, the Portuguese attempted to legitimise and consolidate their trade and settlement positions through the creation of prazos.
Who acts: Portuguese, regions · What happens: attempt, legitimise, consolidate, trade, create · To what, where: central part, trade, creation, prazos
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese, regions), 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 | _ | 4 part | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attempted | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 territory | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 territory | det |
| 7 | Mozambique | Mozambique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 territory | compound |
| 8 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Portuguese | det |
| 11 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 attempted | nsubj |
| 12 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 legitimise | mark |
| 14 | legitimise | legitimise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 attempted | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 consolidate | cc |
| 16 | consolidate | consolidate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 legitimise | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 trade | nmod:poss |
| 18 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consolidate | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 positions | cc |
| 20 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 positions | compound |
| 21 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 trade | conj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 creation | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 creation | det |
| 24 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consolidate | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 prazos | case |
| 26 | prazos | prazo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 creation | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | the Portuguese | the central part of the Mozambique territory | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | legitimise not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Portuguese not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | consolidate | infinitive | the Portuguese not said here | regions's trade and settlement positions | the creation of prazos | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Patient | |||
| 4 | trade | regions = region | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | create | prazos | nom creation «act 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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