Niamey, sentence 361
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Niamey has a large market for Tuareg craftwork and art, often purchased by Western expatriates, which has motivated Tuareg artisans to work in the city; the market of Château 1 became a popular place for such products in the 1990s.
Who acts: Niamey, market · What happens: have, purchase, motivate, work, become, market · To what, where: large market, Western expatriates, popular place, Château
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: who acts (Niamey, market), 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 | Niamey | niamey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 market | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 market | amod |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 craftwork | case |
| 7 | Tuareg | Tuareg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 craftwork | compound |
| 8 | craftwork | craftwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 market | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 art | cc |
| 10 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 craftwork | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 purchased | punct |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 purchased | advmod |
| 13 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 market | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 expatriates | case |
| 15 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 expatriates | amod |
| 16 | expatriates | expatriate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 purchased | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 motivated | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 motivated | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 motivated | aux |
| 20 | motivated | motivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 expatriates | acl:relcl |
| 21 | Tuareg | Tuareg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 artisans | compound |
| 22 | artisans | artisan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 motivated | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 work | mark |
| 24 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 motivated | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 work | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 became | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 market | det |
| 30 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 became | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Château | case |
| 32 | Château | Château | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 market | nmod |
| 33 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Château | flat |
| 34 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 place | det |
| 36 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 place | amod |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 became | xcomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 products | case |
| 39 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 products | amod |
| 40 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 place | nmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 1990s | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 1990s | det |
| 43 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 40 products | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Niamey | a large market | for Tuareg craftwork and art | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Patient | |||
| 2 | purchase | participle | a large market not said here | by Western expatriates; often property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | motivate | present · perfect · passive | Western expatriates | Tuareg artisans obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | in the city | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in city=Theme | |||||
| 5 | become | past | the market of Château | a popular place for such products in the 1990s | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | market | Château | nom market «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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