Namibia, sentence 74
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During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the accelerated decolonisation of Africa and mounting pressure on the remaining colonial powers to grant their colonies self-determination resulted in the formation of nascent nationalist parties in South West Africa.
What happens: accelerate, mount, remain, grant, result, decolonise · To what, where: pressure, remaining colonial powers, colonies, self determination, formation, Africa
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Namibia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 1950s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 1950s | det |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 1950s | amod |
| 4 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 1960s | cc |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 1960s | amod |
| 7 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 1950s | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decolonisation | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 decolonisation | det |
| 10 | accelerated | accelerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 decolonisation | amod |
| 11 | decolonisation | decolonisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 1950s | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Africa | case |
| 13 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 decolonisation | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mounting | cc |
| 15 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 decolonisation | conj |
| 16 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mounting | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 powers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 powers | det |
| 19 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 powers | amod |
| 20 | colonial | colonial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 powers | compound |
| 21 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mounting | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 grant | mark |
| 23 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 powers | acl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 colonies | nmod:poss |
| 25 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grant | obj |
| 26 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 determination | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 self | punct |
| 28 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 colonies | nmod |
| 29 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 determination | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 formation | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 formation | det |
| 32 | formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 resulted | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 parties | case |
| 34 | nascent | nascent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 parties | amod |
| 35 | nationalist | nationalist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 parties | amod |
| 36 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 formation | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 Africa | case |
| 38 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Africa | compound |
| 39 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Africa | compound |
| 40 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 parties | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 1950s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accelerate | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mount | gerund | pressure | the remaining colonial powers | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme on power=Destination | ||||
| 3 | remain | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grant | to-infinitive | people's colonies self determination | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent colony=Theme | |||||
| 5 | result | participle | self determination not said here | the formation of nascent nationalist parties in South West Africa | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in formation=Location | ||||
| 7 | decolonise | Africa | nom decolonisation «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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