Niamey, sentence 309
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Niamey was founded in 1942 and has been the metropolitan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of Niger since 2014.
What happens: found, be · To what, where: Roman Catholic Archdiocese, 1942, metropolitan diocese
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niamey». 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Archdiocese | det |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Archdiocese | amod |
| 3 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Archdiocese | amod |
| 4 | Archdiocese | Archdiocese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Niamey | case |
| 6 | Niamey | Niamey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Archdiocese | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 founded | aux:pass |
| 8 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 1942 | case |
| 10 | 1942 | 1942 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 founded | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 diocese | cc |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 diocese | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 diocese | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 diocese | det |
| 15 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diocese | compound |
| 16 | diocese | diocese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 province | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 province | det |
| 19 | ecclesiastical | ecclesiastical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 province | amod |
| 20 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diocese | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Niger | case |
| 22 | Niger | niger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 province | nmod |
| 23 | since | since | ADP | _ | 24 2014 | case |
| 24 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 founded | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Niamey | 1942 | since 2014 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | the metropolitan diocese | of the ecclesiastical province of Niger | 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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