North Nicosia, sentence 61
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Nearby Büyük Han, the largest caravanserai in the island and considered to be one of the finest buildings in Cyprus, was built in 1572 by the Ottomans.
Who acts: Ottomans · What happens: consider, be, build · To what, where: one, Büyük, 1572
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 (Ottomans), 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 | Nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 2 Büyük | advmod |
| 2 | Büyük | Büyük | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Büyük | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 caravanserai | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caravanserai | det |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 caravanserai | amod |
| 7 | caravanserai | caravanserai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Büyük | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caravanserai | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 considered | cc |
| 12 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 island | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 one | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 considered | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 buildings | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 buildings | det |
| 18 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 buildings | amod |
| 19 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Cyprus | case |
| 21 | Cyprus | Cyprus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 buildings | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Büyük | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 built | aux:pass |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1572 | case |
| 26 | 1572 | 1572 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 built | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Ottomans | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Ottomans | det |
| 29 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 built | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the Ottomans not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the Ottomans not said here | one | of the finest buildings in Cyprus | tree rules | |||
| 3 | build | past · passive | the Ottomans | Büyük | 1572 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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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