Suriname, sentence 55
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In 1667, during negotiations leading to the Treaty of Breda after the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of Surinam they had gained from the English.
Who acts: negotiations, Dutch, Disputes · What happens: lead, decide, keep, gain · To what, where: 1667, nascent plantation colony, Surinam, English
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suriname». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negotiations, Dutch, Disputes), 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 1667 | case |
| 2 | 1667 | 1667 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 decided | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1667 | punct |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 negotiations | case |
| 5 | negotiations | negotiation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 decided | obl |
| 6 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 negotiations | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Treaty | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Treaty | det |
| 9 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leading | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Breda | case |
| 11 | Breda | Breda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Treaty | nmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 War | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 War | det |
| 14 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 War | amod |
| 15 | Anglo | Anglo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 War | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dutch | punct |
| 17 | Dutch | Dutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Anglo | conj |
| 18 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 negotiations | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 negotiations | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Dutch | det |
| 21 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 decided | nsubj |
| 22 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 decided | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 colony | det |
| 26 | nascent | nascent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 colony | amod |
| 27 | plantation | plantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 colony | compound |
| 28 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Surinam | case |
| 30 | Surinam | surinam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 colony | nmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gained | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 gained | aux |
| 33 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 Surinam | acl:relcl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 English | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 English | det |
| 36 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 gained | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | negotiations after the Second Anglo War not said here | to the Treaty of Breda | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to treaty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | the Dutch | 1667 | during negotiations after the Second Anglo War | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Dutch not said here | the nascent plantation colony of Surinam | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gain | past · perfect | Disputes = dispute | Surinam not said here | the English | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent surinam=Theme from english=Source |
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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