The Hague, sentence 134
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Since the 19th century, high-level civil servants from the Dutch East Indies often spent long-term leave and vacations in The Hague.
Who acts: level civil servants · What happens: spend · To what, where: term leave, Hague
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Hague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (level civil servants), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spent | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 level | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 high | punct |
| 8 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 servants | compound |
| 9 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 servants | amod |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spent | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Indies | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Indies | det |
| 13 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Indies | amod |
| 14 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Indies | compound |
| 15 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 servants | nmod |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 spent | advmod |
| 17 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 term | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 20 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | compound |
| 21 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spent | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 vacations | cc |
| 23 | vacations | vacation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leave | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Hague | case |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Hague | det |
| 26 | Hague | Hague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | level civil servants from the Dutch East Indies | term leave and vacations | the Hague | century | often property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Asset |
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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