Santiago, sentence 356
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Greater Santiago lacks a metropolitan government for its administration, which is distributed between authorities, complicating the operation of the city as a single entity.
Who acts: Greater Santiago, authorities, government · What happens: lack, distribute, complicate, administer, operate · To what, where: metropolitan government, administration, operation, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santiago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greater Santiago, authorities, government), 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 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Santiago | amod |
| 2 | Santiago | Santiago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lacks | nsubj |
| 3 | lacks | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 government | det |
| 5 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 government | compound |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lacks | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 administration | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 administration | nmod:poss |
| 9 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lacks | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 distributed | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 distributed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 distributed | aux:pass |
| 13 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 administration | acl:relcl |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 authorities | case |
| 15 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 distributed | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 complicating | punct |
| 17 | complicating | complicate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lacks | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 operation | det |
| 19 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 complicating | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 operation | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 entity | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 entity | det |
| 25 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 entity | amod |
| 26 | entity | entity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 complicating | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lacks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lack | present | Greater Santiago | a metropolitan government | for government's administration | tree rules | |||
| 2 | distribute | present · passive | authorities | government's administration | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | complicate | gerund | Greater Santiago not said here | the operation of the city | as a single entity | tree rules | |||
| 4 | administer | government | nom administration «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | operate | the city | nom operation «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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