São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 65
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The largest population of maroons coincided with the sugar boom of the mid-16th century, as the plantations teemed with slaves.
What happens: coincide, teem, boom · To what, where: maroons, plantations, largest population, mid-16th century
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 population | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 population | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 maroons | case |
| 5 | maroons | maroon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 population | nmod |
| 6 | coincided | coincide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 maroons | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 boom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boom | det |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boom | compound |
| 10 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coincided | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 century | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 century | det |
| 13 | mid-16th | mid-16th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 century | amod |
| 14 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boom | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plantations | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 plantations | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plantations | det |
| 18 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coincided | obl |
| 19 | teemed | teem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 plantations | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 slaves | case |
| 21 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 teemed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 population | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coincide | participle | maroons not said here | with the sugar boom of the mid-16th century; as the plantations | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with boom=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | teem | participle | the plantations not said here | with slaves | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with slave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | boom | the mid-16th century | nom boom «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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