Port-au-Prince, sentence 75
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It was re-established as the capital of all of Haiti when the country was unified again in 1820 Port-au-Prince was the centre of the political and intellectual life of the country and is the seat of the State University of Haiti (established in 1920).
Who acts: Port au · What happens: re-establish, unify, be, establish · To what, where: colony, country, centre, 1820, seat, State University
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port-au-Prince». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Port au), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 re-established | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 re-established | aux:pass |
| 3 | re-established | re-establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 capital | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 capital | det |
| 6 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 re-established | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 capital | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Haiti | case |
| 10 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 all | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 unified | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unified | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unified | aux:pass |
| 15 | unified | unify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 re-established | advcl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 unified | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1820 | case |
| 18 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 centre | obl |
| 19 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 au | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Port | punct |
| 21 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 centre | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Prince | punct |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 au | appos |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 centre | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 centre | det |
| 26 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unified | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 life | det |
| 29 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 life | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 intellectual | cc |
| 31 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 political | conj |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 centre | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 country | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 country | det |
| 35 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 life | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 seat | cc |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 seat | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 seat | det |
| 39 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 centre | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 University | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 University | det |
| 42 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 University | compound |
| 43 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 seat | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Haiti | case |
| 45 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 University | nmod |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 established | punct |
| 47 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 University | acl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 1920 | case |
| 49 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 established | obl |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 established | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 re-established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-establish | past · passive | colony | as the capital of all of Haiti | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unify | past · passive | the country | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Port au | the centre and the seat | 1820 | of the political life of the country | tree rules | ||
| 4 | is a | present | Port au not said here | the seat | of the State University of Haiti | tree rules | |||
| 5 | establish | participle | the State University of Haiti not said here | 1920 | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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