Tehran, sentence 74
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Several old buildings, including parts of the Golestan Palace, Takyeh Dowlat, and Toopkhaneh Square, were replaced with modern buildings influenced by classical Iranian architecture, particularly the buildings of the National Bank, the police headquarters, the telegraph office, and the military academy.
Who acts: Several old buildings · What happens: include, replace, influence · To what, where: Toopkhaneh, modern buildings, Several old buildings
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tehran». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several old buildings), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 buildings | amod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 buildings | amod |
| 3 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 parts | punct |
| 5 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 parts | case |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buildings | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Palace | det |
| 9 | Golestan | Golestan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Palace | compound |
| 10 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Takyeh | punct |
| 12 | Takyeh | Takyeh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Palace | conj |
| 13 | Dowlat | Dowlat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Takyeh | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 replaced | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 replaced | cc |
| 16 | Toopkhaneh | Toopkhaneh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | Square | Square | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Toopkhaneh | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Toopkhaneh | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 replaced | aux:pass |
| 20 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 buildings | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 buildings | case |
| 22 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 buildings | amod |
| 23 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 replaced | obl |
| 24 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 buildings | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 architecture | case |
| 26 | classical | classical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 architecture | amod |
| 27 | Iranian | Iranian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 architecture | amod |
| 28 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 influenced | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 buildings | punct |
| 30 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 32 buildings | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 buildings | det |
| 32 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 architecture | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Bank | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Bank | det |
| 35 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Bank | amod |
| 36 | Bank | Bank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 buildings | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 headquarters | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 headquarters | det |
| 39 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 headquarters | compound |
| 40 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 36 Bank | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 office | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 office | det |
| 43 | telegraph | telegraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 office | compound |
| 44 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Bank | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 academy | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 academy | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 academy | det |
| 48 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 academy | amod |
| 49 | academy | academy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buildings | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buildings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | replace | past · passive | Several old buildings and the military academy not said here | Toopkhaneh | with modern buildings | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Location with building=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | influence | participle | modern buildings not said here | by classical Iranian architecture and the buildings of the National Bank and the police headquarters and the telegraph office | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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