Saudi Arabia, sentence 248
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The extent of corruption has been described as systemic and endemic, and its existence was acknowledged and defended by Prince Bandar bin Sultan (a senior member of the royal family) in an interview in 2001.
Who acts: extent · What happens: describe, acknowledge, defend, extend, exist · To what, where: extent, existence, interview, corruption
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saudi Arabia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extent), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 extent | det |
| 2 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 corruption | case |
| 4 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 extent | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 described | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 described | aux:pass |
| 7 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 systemic | case |
| 9 | systemic | systemic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 described | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 endemic | cc |
| 11 | endemic | endemic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 systemic | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 acknowledged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 acknowledged | cc |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 existence | nmod:poss |
| 15 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acknowledged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 acknowledged | aux:pass |
| 17 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 described | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 defended | cc |
| 19 | defended | defend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 acknowledged | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Bandar | case |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bandar | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 defended | obl:agent |
| 23 | bin | Bin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bandar | flat |
| 24 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Bandar | flat |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 member | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 member | det |
| 27 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 member | amod |
| 28 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Bandar | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 family | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 family | det |
| 31 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 family | amod |
| 32 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 member | nmod |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 member | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 interview | case |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 interview | det |
| 36 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 defended | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 2001 | case |
| 38 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 interview | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · perfect · passive | the extent of corruption | as systemic and endemic | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as systemic=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | acknowledge | past · passive | extent's existence | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | defend | participle | a interview in 2001 | Bandar Prince obl:agent | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | extend | corruption | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | exist | extent | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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