Transnistria, sentence 147
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In April 1995, the Soviet 14th Guards Army became the Operational Group of Russian Forces, which by the 2010s had shrunk to two battalions and no more than 1,500 troops.
Who acts: Guards Army · What happens: become, shrink · To what, where: Operational Group
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Transnistria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guards Army), 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 April | case |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | obl |
| 3 | 1995 | 1995 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 April | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 April | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Army | det |
| 6 | Soviet | Soviet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Guards | compound |
| 7 | 14th | 14th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 Guards | amod |
| 8 | Guards | Guard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Army | compound |
| 9 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Group | det |
| 12 | Operational | operational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Group | amod |
| 13 | Group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Forces | case |
| 15 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Forces | amod |
| 16 | Forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Group | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shrunk | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 shrunk | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 2010s | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 2010s | det |
| 21 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 23 shrunk | obl |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 shrunk | aux |
| 23 | shrunk | shrink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Group | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 battalions | case |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 battalions | nummod |
| 26 | battalions | battalion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shrunk | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 troops | cc |
| 28 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 1,500 | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 31 1,500 | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 more | fixed |
| 31 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 troops | nummod |
| 32 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 battalions | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Guards Army | the Operational Group of Russian Forces | april | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | shrink | past · perfect | the Operational Group of Russian Forces | by the 2010s; to two battalions and 1,500 troops result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent which=Patient to battalion=Result |
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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