Nairobi, sentence 347
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United States International University – Nairobi was originally a branch of the United States International University, but became a fully autonomous university in 2005.
Who acts: Nairobi, United States · What happens: be, become · To what, where: branch, autonomous university, 2005
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nairobi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nairobi, United States), 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 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 States | amod |
| 2 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 became | nsubj |
| 3 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 University | amod |
| 4 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 States | conj |
| 5 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 branch | punct |
| 6 | Nairobi | Nairobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 branch | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 branch | cop |
| 8 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 10 branch | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 States | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 States | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 States | det |
| 13 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 States | amod |
| 14 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 branch | nmod |
| 15 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 University | amod |
| 16 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 States | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 university | det |
| 21 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 22 autonomous | advmod |
| 22 | autonomous | autonomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 university | amod |
| 23 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 2005 | case |
| 25 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 became | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nairobi | a branch | of the United States and International University; originally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | United States and International University | a autonomous university | in 2005 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2005=Result |
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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