North Macedonia, sentence 42
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Following their defeat in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC, the Persians eventually withdrew from their European territories.
Who acts: Persians, Paeonia · What happens: follow, withdraw, defeat, invade · To what, where: European territories, Second Persian invasion, Greece
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Macedonia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persians, Paeonia), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 defeat | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 withdrew | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 invasion | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 invasion | det |
| 6 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 invasion | amod |
| 7 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 invasion | amod |
| 8 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defeat | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Greece | case |
| 10 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 invasion | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 479 | case |
| 12 | 479 | 479 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 defeat | nmod |
| 13 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 479 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 defeat | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Persians | det |
| 16 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 withdrew | nsubj |
| 17 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 18 withdrew | advmod |
| 18 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 territories | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 territories | nmod:poss |
| 21 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 territories | amod |
| 22 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 withdrew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | withdraw | past | the Persians | Persians's European territories | follow Paeonia's defeat in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC; eventually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from territory=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | defeat | Paeonia | the Second Persian invasion of Greece | nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 4 | invade | Greece | nom invasion «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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