Seychelles, sentence 132
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An island nation, Seychelles is located in the Somali Sea segment of the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar and about 1600 km east of Kenya.
Who acts: island nation · What happens: locate · To what, where: Seychelles, Sea segment, island nation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (island nation), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nation | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nation | compound |
| 3 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 located | punct |
| 5 | Seychelles | Seychelles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 located | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 located | aux:pass |
| 7 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nation | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 segment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 segment | det |
| 10 | Somali | Somali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sea | compound |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 segment | compound |
| 12 | segment | segment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 located | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Ocean | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ocean | det |
| 15 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Ocean | amod |
| 16 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 segment | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 northeast | punct |
| 18 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 segment | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Madagascar | case |
| 20 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 northeast | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 east | cc |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 1600 | advmod |
| 23 | 1600 | 1600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 km | nummod |
| 24 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 east | compound |
| 25 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Madagascar | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Kenya | case |
| 27 | Kenya | Kenya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 east | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · passive | a island nation not said here | Seychelles | the Sea segment of the Indian Ocean and northeast of Madagascar and km east of Kenya | 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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