Nicosia, sentence 39
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Consequently, the town developed sufficiently for the Byzantine Empire to select Nicosia as the capital of the island around 965, when the Byzantine navy restored full imperial control over the island and organised it as a theme.
Who acts: town, Byzantine navy · What happens: develop, select, restore, organise · To what, where: Nicosia, full imperial control, island, town
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nicosia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, Byzantine navy), 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 | Consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 5 developed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consequently | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 developed | nsubj |
| 5 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 5 developed | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Empire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Empire | det |
| 9 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Empire | compound |
| 10 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 developed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 select | mark |
| 12 | select | select | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 developed | advcl |
| 13 | Nicosia | Nicosia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 select | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 capital | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 capital | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 select | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 capital | nmod |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 965 | case |
| 21 | 965 | 965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 island | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 restored | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 restored | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 navy | det |
| 25 | Byzantine | byzantine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 navy | amod |
| 26 | navy | navy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restored | nsubj |
| 27 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 select | advcl |
| 28 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 control | amod |
| 29 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 control | amod |
| 30 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restored | obj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 island | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 island | det |
| 33 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 control | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 organised | cc |
| 35 | organised | organise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 developed | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 organised | obj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 theme | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 theme | det |
| 39 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 organised | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 developed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | past | the town | for the Byzantine Empire; consequently, sufficiently property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for empire=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | select | to-infinitive | the town not said here | Nicosia | as the capital of the island around 965 | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nicosia=Theme as capital=Attribute | |||
| 3 | restore | participle | the Byzantine navy | full imperial control | the island | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent control=Theme | |||
| 4 | organise | past | the town not said here | town | as a theme | 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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