Tifariti, sentence 10
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In 1912, a French Foreign Legion expedition commanded by Captain Gerard, who was trying to link with their troops in Morocco, was exterminated by Sahrawi rebel nomads near Tifariti.
Who acts: French Legion expedition, Sahrawi rebel nomads · What happens: command, try, link, exterminate · To what, where: French Legion expedition, 1912 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tifariti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (French Legion expedition, Sahrawi rebel nomads), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1912 | case |
| 2 | 1912 | 1912 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 exterminated | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1912 | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 expedition | det |
| 5 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 expedition | amod |
| 6 | Foreign | Foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Legion | amod |
| 7 | Legion | Legion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 expedition | compound |
| 8 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 exterminated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 expedition | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Captain | case |
| 11 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 commanded | obl:agent |
| 12 | Gerard | Gerard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Captain | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trying | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 trying | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trying | aux |
| 16 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 expedition | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 link | mark |
| 18 | link | link | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 trying | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 troops | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 troops | nmod:poss |
| 21 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 link | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Morocco | case |
| 23 | Morocco | Morocco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 troops | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 expedition | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 exterminated | aux:pass |
| 26 | exterminated | exterminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 nomads | case |
| 28 | Sahrawi | Sahrawi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 nomads | compound |
| 29 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nomads | compound |
| 30 | nomads | nomad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 exterminated | obl |
| 31 | near | near | ADP | _ | 32 Tifariti | case |
| 32 | Tifariti | Tifariti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 nomads | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 exterminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | participle | a French Legion expedition not said here | Captain obl:agent | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | a French Legion expedition | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | link not said to happen | to-infinitive | a French Legion expedition not said here | with town's troops in Morocco | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with troops=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | exterminate | past · passive | Sahrawi rebel nomads near Tifariti | a French Legion expedition | 1912 | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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