Praia, sentence 43
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At the beginning of the 1960s, other primary schools began to be built in neighbourhoods around the Plateau and in other localities on the island.
Who acts: other primary schools · What happens: begin, build · To what, where: beginning, 1960s
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 (other primary schools), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 beginning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beginning | det |
| 3 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1960s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1960s | det |
| 6 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 beginning | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beginning | punct |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 schools | amod |
| 9 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 schools | amod |
| 10 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 built | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 built | aux:pass |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 began | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 neighbourhoods | case |
| 16 | neighbourhoods | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 built | obl |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 Plateau | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Plateau | det |
| 19 | Plateau | Plateau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 neighbourhoods | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 localities | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 localities | case |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 localities | amod |
| 23 | localities | locality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Plateau | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 island | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 island | det |
| 26 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 localities | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | other primary schools | at the beginning of the 1960s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive · passive | other primary schools not said here | in neighbourhoods around the Plateau and other localities on the island | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: in neighbourhood=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | begin | the 1960s | nom beginning «event 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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