N'Djamena, sentence 14
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It is a port city located at the confluence of the Logone River with the Chari River, forming a transborder agglomeration with the city of Kousséri (in Cameroon), capital of the Department of Logone-et-Chari, which is on the west bank of both rivers.
Who acts: city, capital · What happens: be, locate, form · To what, where: port city, confluence, transborder agglomeration, west bank
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «N'Djamena». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, capital), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 city | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 city | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 4 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 city | compound |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 city | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 confluence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 confluence | det |
| 9 | confluence | confluence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 located | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 River | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 River | det |
| 12 | Logone | Logone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 River | compound |
| 13 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 confluence | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 River | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 River | det |
| 16 | Chari | Chari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 River | compound |
| 17 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 River | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forming | punct |
| 19 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 located | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 agglomeration | det |
| 21 | transborder | transborder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 agglomeration | compound |
| 22 | agglomeration | agglomeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forming | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forming | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Kousséri | case |
| 27 | Kousséri | Kousséri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 city | nmod |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 Cameroon | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Cameroon | case |
| 30 | Cameroon | Cameroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Kousséri | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 Cameroon | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 capital | punct |
| 33 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 city | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Department | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Department | det |
| 36 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 capital | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Chari | case |
| 38 | Logone | Logone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Chari | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Logone | punct |
| 40 | et | ET | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Chari | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Chari | punct |
| 42 | Chari | Chari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Department | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 bank | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 bank | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 bank | cop |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 bank | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 bank | det |
| 48 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 bank | amod |
| 49 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 capital | appos |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 rivers | case |
| 51 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 rivers | det |
| 52 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 bank | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | city | a port city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | locate | participle | a port city not said here | the confluence of the Logone River with the Chari River | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | gerund | a transborder agglomeration | with the city of Kousséri and capital of the Department of Logone et Chari | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location agglomeration=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | capital of the Department of Logone et Chari | the west bank | of both rivers | 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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