Pristina, sentence 27
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Prišt in Serbo-Croatian means "boil" and this may be a reference to the seething waters of the nearby river Gračanka.
Who acts: Prišt, this · What happens: mean, be, seethe · To what, where: boil, reference
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pristina». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prišt, this), 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 | Prišt | Prišt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Serbo | case |
| 3 | Serbo | Serbo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prišt | nmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Croatian | punct |
| 5 | Croatian | croatian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Prišt | conj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 boil | punct |
| 8 | boil | boil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 boil | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reference | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 reference | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 reference | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reference | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 reference | det |
| 15 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boil | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 18 | seething | seethe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 waters | amod |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reference | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 22 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 river | amod |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waters | nmod |
| 24 | Gračanka | Gračanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 river | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Prišt in Serbo | boil and a reference | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boil=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | may | this | a reference | to the seething waters of the nearby river | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seethe | gerund | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
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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