São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 108
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Evaristo Carvalho became the President of São Tomé and Príncipe in the 2016 elections, after winning over the incumbent President Manuel Pinto da Costa.
Who acts: Evaristo · What happens: become, win · To what, where: 2016 elections, incumbent
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé and Príncipe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evaristo), 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 | Evaristo | Evaristo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 2 | Carvalho | Carvalho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Evaristo | flat |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 President | det |
| 5 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 São | nmod:desc |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 São | case |
| 7 | São | São | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | xcomp |
| 8 | Tomé | Tomé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 São | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Príncipe | cc |
| 10 | Príncipe | Príncipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 São | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 elections | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 elections | det |
| 13 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 elections | nummod |
| 14 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 winning | punct |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 winning | mark |
| 17 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 became | advcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 incumbent | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 incumbent | det |
| 20 | incumbent | incumbent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 winning | obl |
| 21 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Manuel | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Manuel | Manuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 incumbent | appos |
| 23 | Pinto | Pinto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Manuel | flat |
| 24 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Manuel | flat |
| 25 | Costa | Costa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Manuel | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Evaristo | in the 2016 elections result; São the President and Príncipe xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in election=Result | ||||
| 2 | win | gerund | Evaristo not said here | the incumbent | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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