Saint Lucia, sentence 50
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However, in 1796 a British expeditionary force landed on Saint Lucia and recaptured it from the French, during which Castries was burned; the recapture became known as the Second Brigand War.
Who acts: British expeditionary force, recapture · What happens: land, recapture, burn, become, know · To what, where: 1796, War, French, Castries
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 (British expeditionary force, recapture), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 9 landed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1796 | case |
| 4 | 1796 | 1796 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 landed | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 force | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 force | amod |
| 7 | expeditionary | expeditionary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 force | amod |
| 8 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 landed | nsubj |
| 9 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Saint | case |
| 11 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 landed | obl |
| 12 | Lucia | Lucia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Saint | flat |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 recaptured | cc |
| 14 | recaptured | recapture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 landed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 recaptured | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 French | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 French | det |
| 18 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 recaptured | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 burned | punct |
| 20 | during | during | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 burned | obl |
| 22 | Castries | Castries | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 burned | aux:pass |
| 24 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 recaptured | parataxis |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 recapture | det |
| 27 | recapture | recapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | nsubj |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 landed | conj |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 became | xcomp |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 War | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 War | det |
| 32 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 War | amod |
| 33 | Brigand | Brigand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 War | compound |
| 34 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 known | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | a British expeditionary force | 1796 | on Saint; however property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in 1796=Destination | |||
| 2 | recapture | past | a British expeditionary force not said here | War | the French | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from french=Source | |||
| 3 | burn | past · passive | Castries | which obl | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the recapture | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | participle | the recapture not said here | as the Second Brigand War | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as war=Attribute |
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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