Santo Domingo, sentence 36
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In 1821, Santo Domingo became the capital of an independent nation called the Republic of Spanish Haiti after the Criollo bourgeois within the country, led by José Núñez de Cáceres, overthrew the Spanish crown.
Who acts: Santo · What happens: become, call, lead, overthrow · To what, where: capital, 1821, independent nation, Criollo bourgeois, Spanish crown · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Santo), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1821 | case |
| 2 | 1821 | 1821 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 became | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1821 | punct |
| 4 | Santo | Santo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 5 | Domingo | Domingo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Santo | flat |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 capital | det |
| 8 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nation | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nation | det |
| 11 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nation | amod |
| 12 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 capital | nmod |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 nation | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Republic | det |
| 15 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Haiti | case |
| 17 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Haiti | compound |
| 18 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Republic | nmod |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 bourgeois | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bourgeois | det |
| 21 | Criollo | Criollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bourgeois | compound |
| 22 | bourgeois | bourgeois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bourgeois | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 led | punct |
| 27 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 bourgeois | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 José | case |
| 29 | José | José | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 led | obl:agent |
| 30 | Núñez | Núñez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 José | flat |
| 31 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 José | flat |
| 32 | Cáceres | Cáceres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 José | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 overthrew | punct |
| 34 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 crown | det |
| 36 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 crown | amod |
| 37 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 overthrew | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Santo | the capital of a independent nation | in 1821 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1821=Result | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a independent nation not said here | after the Criollo bourgeois within the country | the Republic of Spanish Haiti xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | lead | participle | the Criollo bourgeois within the country not said here | José obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | overthrow | past | Santo not said here | the Spanish crown | 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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