Solomon Islands, sentence 54
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Conditions for workers were often poor and exploitative, and local islanders often violently attacked any Europeans who appeared on their island.
Who acts: Conditions, Europeans · What happens: be, attack, appear · To what, where: local islanders, island
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Solomon Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conditions, Europeans), 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 | Conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poor | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 workers | case |
| 3 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Conditions | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 poor | cop |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 poor | advmod |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 exploitative | cc |
| 8 | exploitative | exploitative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poor | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 attacked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 attacked | cc |
| 11 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 islanders | amod |
| 12 | islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 attacked | advmod |
| 14 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 15 attacked | advmod |
| 15 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 poor | advcl |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 Europeans | det |
| 17 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 attacked | obl:agent |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 appeared | nsubj |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Europeans | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 island | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 island | nmod:poss |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appeared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Conditions for workers | often, poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Conditions for workers not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | attack | participle · passive | any Europeans | local islanders | often, violently property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | appear | past | any Europeans | Islanders's island | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
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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