Saint Lucia, sentence 29
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By 26 September 1605, only 19 survived following continued attacks by the Carib chief Augraumart, so the settlers fled the island.
Who acts: 19, settlers, Carib chief · What happens: survive, follow, continue, flee, attack · To what, where: continued attacks, island
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saint Lucia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (19, settlers, Carib chief), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 26 | case |
| 2 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 survived | obl |
| 3 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 26 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1605 | 1605 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 26 | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 survived | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 19 | advmod |
| 7 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 survived | nsubj |
| 8 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 survived | xcomp |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 attacks | amod |
| 11 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 following | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chief | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 14 | Carib | Carib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chief | compound |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attacks | nmod |
| 16 | Augraumart | Augraumart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chief | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fled | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 fled | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 settlers | det |
| 20 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fled | nsubj |
| 21 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 survived | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fled | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 survived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | past | 19 | by 26 September | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | 19 not said here | continued attacks | by the Carib chief | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent attack=Theme by chief=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | continue | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | flee | past | the settlers | the island | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | attack | the Carib chief | nom attack «act transitive»: by=agent |
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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