The Gambia, sentence 183
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According to the 1996 constitution, the President is the head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Who acts: President · What happens: accord, be · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Gambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (President), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 constitution | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 constitution | det |
| 4 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 constitution | nummod |
| 5 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 head | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 President | det |
| 8 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 head | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 constitution | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 state | case |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 constitution | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 government | case |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 chief | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 chief | cc |
| 20 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chief | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 chief | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 chief | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 constitution | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 forces | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forces | det |
| 27 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forces | amod |
| 28 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 chief | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 constitution | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the President | the head | of state | 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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