North Macedonia, sentence 45
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A Paeonian cavalry contingent, led by Ariston, possibly brother of King Patraus and father of the later king Audoleon, was attached to Alexander the Great's army.
What happens: lead, attach · To what, where: Paeonian cavalry contingent, Alexander
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 contingent | det |
| 2 | Paeonian | paeonian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 contingent | amod |
| 3 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contingent | compound |
| 4 | contingent | contingent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attached | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 contingent | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Ariston | case |
| 8 | Ariston | Ariston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 10 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 11 brother | advmod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contingent | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Patraus | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Patraus | compound |
| 14 | Patraus | Patraus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 father | cc |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Patraus | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Audoleon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Audoleon | det |
| 19 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 Audoleon | advmod |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Audoleon | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Audoleon | Audoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 father | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 contingent | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 attached | aux:pass |
| 24 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Alexander | case |
| 26 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 attached | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Great | det |
| 28 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 army | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Great | case |
| 30 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | a Paeonian cavalry contingent and brother of King Patraus and father of the Audoleon king not said here | Ariston obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | attach | past · passive | a Paeonian cavalry contingent and brother of King Patraus and father of the Audoleon king | Alexander | the Great's army nsubj:pass | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to alexander=Co-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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