Tallinn, sentence 118
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The function of the "district governments", however, is not directly governing, but just limited to providing advice to the city government and the city council on issues related to the administration of respective districts.
Who acts: function · What happens: not govern, provide, administer · To what, where: advice, city government, issues, respective districts
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tallinn». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (function), 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 | 2 function | det |
| 2 | function | function | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 governing | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 governments | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 governments | det |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 governments | punct |
| 6 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 governments | compound |
| 7 | governments | government | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 function | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 governments | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 function | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 governing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 however | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 governing | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 governing | advmod |
| 14 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 15 governing | advmod |
| 15 | governing | govern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 limited | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 limited | cc |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 limited | advmod |
| 19 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 governing | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 21 providing | mark |
| 21 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 limited | advcl |
| 22 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 providing | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 government | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 government | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 government | compound |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 providing | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 council | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 council | det |
| 29 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 council | compound |
| 30 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 government | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 issues | case |
| 32 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 providing | obl |
| 33 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 issues | amod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 administration | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 administration | det |
| 36 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 related | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 districts | case |
| 38 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 districts | amod |
| 39 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 administration | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 governing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not govern | present · progressive | the function of the district governments | directly, however property | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | provide | gerund | the function of the district governments not said here | advice | the city government and the city council | issues | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Theme to government=Recipient | ||
| 3 | administer | respective districts | nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient |
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