South Ossetia, sentence 92
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In March and April 1991, Soviet interior troops were reported actively disarming militias on both sides, and deterring the inter-ethnic violence.
What happens: report, disarm, deter · To what, where: Soviet interior troops, militias, sides, inter ethnic violence
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Ossetia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 March | case |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reported | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 April | cc |
| 4 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 March | conj |
| 5 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 April | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 March | punct |
| 7 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 troops | compound |
| 8 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 troops | compound |
| 9 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reported | aux:pass |
| 11 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | actively | actively | ADV | _ | 11 reported | advmod |
| 13 | disarming | disarm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 reported | xcomp |
| 14 | militias | militia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 disarming | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sides | case |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sides | det |
| 17 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 disarming | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deterring | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 deterring | cc |
| 20 | deterring | deter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 reported | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 violence | det |
| 22 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 violence | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 inter | punct |
| 24 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 violence | amod |
| 25 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deterring | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | Soviet interior troops | march | actively property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | disarm | gerund | militias | both sides | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus militia=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | deter | gerund | the inter ethnic violence | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer violence=Eventuality |
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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