Panama City, sentence 25
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Bunau-Varilla negotiated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which provided the United States with a 10-mile-wide strip of land for the canal, a one-time $10 million payment to Panama, and an annual annuity of $250,000.
Who acts: Bunau, Varilla Treaty · What happens: negotiate, provide · To what, where: Varilla Treaty, United States
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Panama City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bunau, Varilla Treaty), 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 | Bunau | Bunau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 negotiated | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Varilla | punct |
| 3 | Varilla | Varilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bunau | flat |
| 4 | negotiated | negotiate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Treaty | det |
| 6 | Hay | Hay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Treaty | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bunau | punct |
| 8 | Bunau | Bunau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hay | conj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Varilla | punct |
| 10 | Varilla | Varilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Treaty | compound |
| 11 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 negotiated | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 1903 | case |
| 13 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Treaty | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 provided | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 provided | nsubj |
| 16 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Treaty | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 States | det |
| 18 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 States | amod |
| 19 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 provided | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 strip | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 strip | det |
| 22 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 mile | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 10 | punct |
| 24 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strip | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 mile | punct |
| 26 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 strip | amod |
| 27 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 provided | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strip | nmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 canal | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 canal | det |
| 32 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 land | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 time | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 time | nummod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 one | punct |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strip | conj |
| 38 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 37 time | appos |
| 39 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 million | compound |
| 40 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 $ | nummod |
| 41 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 $ | appos |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Panama | case |
| 43 | Panama | Panama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 payment | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 annuity | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 annuity | cc |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 annuity | det |
| 47 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 annuity | amod |
| 48 | annuity | annuity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 negotiated | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 $ | case |
| 50 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 48 annuity | nmod |
| 51 | 250,000 | 250,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 50 $ | nummod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 negotiated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | negotiate | past | Bunau | the Varilla Treaty Hay and Bunau of 1903 | a annual annuity obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | provide | past | the Varilla Treaty Hay and Bunau of 1903 | the United States | with a mile wide strip of land for the canal and a one time | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent state=Recipient with strip=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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