Somalia, sentence 184
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Another notable instance of Barre's repressive policies occurred in the city of Baidoa, which earned the nickname 'the city of death' due to the events that unfolded there during the famine and civil war.
Who acts: notable instance, Baidoa, events · What happens: occur, earn, unfold, instance · To what, where: city, nickname, repressive policies
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somalia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notable instance, Baidoa, events), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 instance | det |
| 2 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 instance | amod |
| 3 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occurred | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 policies | case |
| 5 | Barre | Barre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 policies | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Barre | case |
| 7 | repressive | repressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 policies | amod |
| 8 | policies | policy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 instance | nmod |
| 9 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occurred | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Baidoa | case |
| 14 | Baidoa | Baidoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 city | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 earned | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 earned | nsubj |
| 17 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Baidoa | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nickname | det |
| 19 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 earned | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 city | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nickname | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 city | nmod |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 city | punct |
| 26 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 29 events | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 due | fixed |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 events | det |
| 29 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 occurred | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 unfolded | nsubj |
| 31 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 events | acl:relcl |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 unfolded | advmod |
| 33 | during | during | ADP | _ | 35 famine | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 famine | det |
| 35 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 unfolded | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 war | cc |
| 37 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 war | amod |
| 38 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 famine | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | another notable instance of Barre's repressive policies | the city of Baidoa | due the events | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in city=Location | |||
| 2 | earn | past | Baidoa | the nickname | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nickname=Theme | ||||
| 3 | unfold | past | the events | there | during the famine and civil war | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | instance | Barre's repressive policies | nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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