Niger, sentence 112
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Tuareg resistance continued, culminating in the Kaocen revolt of 1916–1917, led by Ag Mohammed Wau Teguidda Kaocen, with backing from the Senussi in Fezzan; the revolt was violently suppressed and Kaocen fled to Fezzan where he was later killed.
Who acts: Tuareg resistance, Kaocen · What happens: continue, culminate, lead, suppress, flee, kill · To what, where: Kaocen revolt, revolt, Fezzan
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Niger». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuareg resistance, Kaocen), 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 | Tuareg | tuareg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 resistance | compound |
| 2 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 culminating | punct |
| 5 | culminating | culminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 continued | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 revolt | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 revolt | det |
| 8 | Kaocen | Kaocen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 revolt | compound |
| 9 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 culminating | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 1916 | case |
| 11 | 1916 | 1916 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 revolt | nmod |
| 12 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 13 1917 | case |
| 13 | 1917 | 1917 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 1916 | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 continued | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Ag | case |
| 17 | Ag | Ag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl:agent |
| 18 | Mohammed | Mohammed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ag | flat |
| 19 | Wau | Wau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ag | flat |
| 20 | Teguidda | Teguidda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ag | flat |
| 21 | Kaocen | Kaocen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Teguidda | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 backing | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 backing | case |
| 24 | backing | backing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Senussi | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Senussi | det |
| 27 | Senussi | Senussi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 backing | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Fezzan | case |
| 29 | Fezzan | Fezzan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Senussi | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 suppressed | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 revolt | det |
| 32 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 suppressed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 suppressed | aux:pass |
| 34 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 35 suppressed | advmod |
| 35 | suppressed | suppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 continued | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 fled | cc |
| 37 | Kaocen | Kaocen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 fled | nsubj |
| 38 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 suppressed | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Fezzan | case |
| 40 | Fezzan | Fezzan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 fled | obl |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 killed | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 killed | aux:pass |
| 44 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 killed | advmod |
| 45 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 fled | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Tuareg resistance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | culminate | gerund | Tuareg resistance not said here | the Kaocen revolt of 1916 – 1917 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | participle | Tuareg resistance not said here | with backing from the Senussi in Fezzan; Ag obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | suppress | past · passive | the revolt | violently property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | flee | past | Kaocen | Fezzan | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fezzan=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | kill | past · passive | revolt | late property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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