Praia, sentence 26
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For a long time, only the Plateau was considered to be the city, the other neighbourhoods being relegated to the condition of peripheral suburbs, in spite of always having a close relationship with the Plateau (people movements, goods and services exchanges, etc.).
Who acts: spite · What happens: consider, be, relegate, have, condition · To what, where: Plateau, city, other neighbourhoods, spite, close relationship, peripheral suburbs
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Praia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 considered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 Plateau | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Plateau | det |
| 8 | Plateau | Plateau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 considered | aux:pass |
| 10 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 city | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 city | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 considered | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 relegated | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 neighbourhoods | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neighbourhoods | amod |
| 18 | neighbourhoods | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 relegated | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 relegated | aux:pass |
| 20 | relegated | relegate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 considered | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 condition | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 condition | det |
| 23 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 relegated | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 suburbs | case |
| 25 | peripheral | peripheral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 suburbs | amod |
| 26 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 condition | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spite | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 spite | case |
| 29 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 relegated | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 having | mark |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 32 having | advmod |
| 32 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 spite | acl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 relationship | det |
| 34 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 relationship | amod |
| 35 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 having | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 Plateau | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Plateau | det |
| 38 | Plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 relationship | nmod |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 people | punct |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 Plateau | conj |
| 41 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 people | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 goods | punct |
| 43 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 41 movements | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 services | cc |
| 45 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 movements | conj |
| 46 | exchanges | exchange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 movements | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 etc. | punct |
| 48 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 46 exchanges | conj |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 exchanges | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · passive | the Plateau | time | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the city | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | relegate | gerund · passive | the other neighbourhoods | spite | to the condition of peripheral suburbs | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | spite not said here | a close relationship | with the Plateau and people; always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Patient | |||
| 5 | condition | peripheral suburbs | nom condition «state 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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