Sukhumi, sentence 33
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Although the sea made serious inroads upon the territory of Dioscurias, it continued to flourish and became one of the key cities in the realm of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the 2nd century BC and supported his cause until the end.
Who acts: sea, BC · What happens: make, continue, flourish, become, support, cause · To what, where: serious inroads, cause
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sukhumi». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, BC), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 continued | advcl |
| 5 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 inroads | amod |
| 6 | inroads | inroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 territory | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 territory | det |
| 9 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Dioscurias | case |
| 11 | Dioscurias | Dioscurias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 territory | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 continued | nsubj |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 flourish | mark |
| 16 | flourish | flourish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 continued | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 continued | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 became | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cities | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cities | det |
| 22 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cities | amod |
| 23 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 realm | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 realm | det |
| 26 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cities | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Mithridates | case |
| 28 | Mithridates | mithridate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 realm | nmod |
| 29 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 28 Mithridates | flat |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Pontus | case |
| 31 | Pontus | Pontus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 VI | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 century | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 century | det |
| 34 | 2nd | 2nd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 35 century | amod |
| 35 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Mithridates | nmod |
| 36 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 century | appos |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 supported | cc |
| 38 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 continued | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 cause | nmod:poss |
| 40 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 supported | obj |
| 41 | until | until | ADP | _ | 43 end | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 end | det |
| 43 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 supported | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sea | serious inroads | upon the territory of Dioscurias | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inroad=Product | |||
| 2 | continue | past | Sea | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | flourish | to-infinitive | Sea not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | past | Sea not said here | one of the key cities in the realm of Mithridates in the 2nd century xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | support | past | Sea not said here | BC's cause | until the end | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | cause | BC | nom cause «event transitive»: 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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