São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 87
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Picking up momentum in the 1960s, events moved quickly after the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal in April 1974.
Who acts: events · What happens: pick up, move, overthrow · To what, where: momentum, 1960s, Caetano dictatorship
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 (events), 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 | Picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 moved | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Picking | compound:prt |
| 3 | momentum | momentum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picking | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1960s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1960s | det |
| 6 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 momentum | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picking | punct |
| 8 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 moved | nsubj |
| 9 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 moved | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 overthrow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 overthrow | det |
| 13 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dictatorship | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dictatorship | det |
| 16 | Caetano | Caetano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dictatorship | compound |
| 17 | dictatorship | dictatorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overthrow | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Portugal | case |
| 19 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dictatorship | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 April | case |
| 21 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | obl |
| 22 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | gerund | events not said here | momentum | the 1960s | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent momentum=Topic | |||
| 2 | move | past | events | after the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal; april | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | overthrow | the Caetano dictatorship in Portugal | nom overthrow «act 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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