North Nicosia, sentence 51
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The square used to be the seat of a Lusignan palace, which was replaced with the present-day law courts by the British government.
Who acts: British government · What happens: use, be, replace · To what, where: square, seat, Lusignan palace
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: who acts (British government), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 square | det |
| 2 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 square | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seat | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seat | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seat | det |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 10 | Lusignan | Lusignan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | compound |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seat | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replaced | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 replaced | aux:pass |
| 15 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 palace | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 courts | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 courts | det |
| 18 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 present | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 courts | compound |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 courts | compound |
| 22 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 replaced | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 25 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 government | amod |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replaced | obl:agent |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 square | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the square not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the seat | of a Lusignan palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | replace | past · passive | the British government | a Lusignan palace | with the day law courts | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme subject=Location with court=Co-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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