Nukuʻalofa, sentence 46
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This happened after the burning down and fall of Takai's fortress of Pea under the command of his son Moeakiola in 1852.
Who acts: This · What happens: happen down, fall, command · To what, where: command, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nukuʻalofa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 burning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 burning | det |
| 5 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 happened | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fall | cc |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 happened | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fortress | case |
| 10 | Takai | Takai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fortress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Takai | case |
| 12 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pea | case |
| 14 | Pea | Pea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fortress | nmod |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 command | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 command | det |
| 17 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 son | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 command | nmod |
| 21 | Moeakiola | Moeakiola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 son | appos |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1852 | case |
| 23 | 1852 | 1852 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 fall | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen down | past | This | after the burning | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | This not said here | the command of Pea's son | of Takai's fortress of Pea; in 1852 | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under command=Location | |||
| 3 | command | Pea's son | nom command «communication 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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