Santo Domingo, sentence 28
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A report which reached the English government in May 1586 states that from Santo Domingo he took away 1,200 Englishmen, Frenchmen, Flemings, and "Provincials out of prison, besides 800 of the countrey people".
Who acts: report, 1586 states, Provincials · What happens: reach, take away, beside · To what, where: English government, 1,200 Englishmen, Santo, 800
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santo Domingo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (report, 1586 states, Provincials), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 report | det |
| 2 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 government | det |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 government | amod |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 May | case |
| 9 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 10 | 1586 | 1586 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 states | nummod |
| 11 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 took | nsubj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Santo | case |
| 14 | Santo | Santo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 15 | Domingo | Domingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Santo | flat |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 states | acl:relcl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 19 | 1,200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Englishmen | nummod |
| 20 | Englishmen | englishman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Frenchmen | punct |
| 22 | Frenchmen | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Englishmen | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Flemings | punct |
| 24 | Flemings | fleming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Englishmen | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 besides | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 besides | cc |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Provincials | punct |
| 28 | Provincials | provincial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 besides | nsubj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 prison | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 prison | case |
| 31 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Provincials | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Provincials | punct |
| 33 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 34 | 800 | 800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 besides | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 people | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 people | det |
| 37 | countrey | countrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 people | compound |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 800 | nmod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 besides | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | a report | the English government | may | which nsubj; 1586 states obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent government=Beneficiary state=Theme | ||
| 2 | take away | past | 1586 states | 1,200 Englishmen and Frenchmen and Flemings | Santo | report nsubj; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent englishman=Theme from santo=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | beside in a quote | present | Provincials out prison | 800 of the countrey people | tree rules |
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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