Port Moresby, sentence 34
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On 10 October, Commodore James Erskine was cabled orders to proclaim the protectorate over the south-eastern coast of New Guinea.
What happens: cable, proclaim · To what, where: Commodore James, protectorate, eastern coast
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Moresby». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 October | case |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 October | nummod |
| 3 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cabled | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 October | punct |
| 5 | Commodore | Commodore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 James | compound |
| 6 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cabled | nsubj |
| 7 | Erskine | Erskine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 James | flat |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cabled | aux:pass |
| 9 | cabled | cable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cabled | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 proclaim | mark |
| 12 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cabled | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 protectorate | det |
| 14 | protectorate | protectorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proclaim | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 coast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coast | det |
| 17 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eastern | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 south | punct |
| 19 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coast | amod |
| 20 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proclaim | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Guinea | case |
| 22 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Guinea | compound |
| 23 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 coast | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cable | past · passive | Commodore James | october | orders obj | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient order=Topic | |||
| 2 | proclaim | to-infinitive | the protectorate | the eastern coast of New Guinea | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protectorate=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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