São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 187
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Since the new constitution was adopted in 1990, the provinces have been abolished, and the districts are the only administrative subdivisions.
Who acts: districts · What happens: adopt, abolish, be · To what, where: 1990, provinces, only administrative subdivisions
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 (districts), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 4 constitution | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 constitution | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 constitution | amod |
| 4 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adopted | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 adopted | aux:pass |
| 6 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1990 | case |
| 8 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 adopted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 abolished | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 provinces | det |
| 11 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 abolished | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 abolished | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 abolished | aux:pass |
| 14 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 adopted | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 subdivisions | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 subdivisions | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 districts | det |
| 18 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 subdivisions | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 subdivisions | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 subdivisions | det |
| 21 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 subdivisions | amod |
| 22 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 subdivisions | amod |
| 23 | subdivisions | subdivision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 abolished | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adopted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | past · passive | 1990 | since the new constitution | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | abolish | present · perfect · passive | the provinces | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the districts | the only administrative subdivisions | tree rules |
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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