North Nicosia, sentence 18
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On 23 April 2003, the Ledra Palace crossing was opened through the Green Line, the first time that crossing was allowed since 1974.
What happens: open, allow · To what, where: Palace crossing, 23, first time
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «North Nicosia». 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 23 | case |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 opened | obl |
| 3 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 2003 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 2003 | 2003 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 23 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crossing | det |
| 7 | Ledra | Ledra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Palace | compound |
| 8 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 crossing | compound |
| 9 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | aux:pass |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 Line | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Line | det |
| 14 | Green | Green | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Line | compound |
| 15 | Line | Line | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Line | appos |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 allowed | aux:pass |
| 23 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | since | since | ADP | _ | 25 1974 | case |
| 25 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 allowed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the Palace crossing | 23 2003 April | through the Green Line | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on 23=Location | |||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | the first time | since 1974 | crossing nsubj:pass | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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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