The Gambia, sentence 222
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Responsibility for the military has rested directly with the President since Jammeh seized power at the head of a bloodless military coup in 1994.
Who acts: Jammeh · What happens: rest, seize · To what, where: Responsibility, power, 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 (Jammeh), 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 | Responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 military | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 military | det |
| 4 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Responsibility | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rested | aux |
| 6 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 6 rested | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 President | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 President | det |
| 10 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rested | obl |
| 11 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 seized | mark |
| 12 | Jammeh | Jammeh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | nsubj |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rested | advcl |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 coup | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 coup | det |
| 20 | bloodless | bloodless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 coup | amod |
| 21 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 coup | amod |
| 22 | coup | coup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1994 | case |
| 24 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 seized | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present · perfect · passive | Responsibility for the military | with the President; directly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Jammeh | power | the head of a bloodless military coup | in 1994 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
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