Transnistria, sentence 229
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In November 2005, Ion Iovcev, the principal of a Romanian-language school in Transnistria and active advocate for human rights as well as a critic of the Transnistrian leadership, received threatening calls that he attributed to his criticism of the separatist regime.
Who acts: Transnistria · What happens: receive, threaten, attribute · To what, where: calls
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 (Transnistria), 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 November | case |
| 2 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 received | obl |
| 3 | 2005 | 2005 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 November | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ion | punct |
| 5 | Ion | Ion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 November | conj |
| 6 | Iovcev | Iovcev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ion | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 principal | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 principal | det |
| 9 | principal | principal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Ion | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 school | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 school | det |
| 12 | Romanian | Romanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 school | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Romanian | punct |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 school | compound |
| 15 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 principal | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Transnistria | case |
| 17 | Transnistria | Transnistria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 school | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advocate | cc |
| 19 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 advocate | amod |
| 20 | advocate | advocate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Transnistria | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 rights | case |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rights | amod |
| 23 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 advocate | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 28 critic | cc |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 critic | det |
| 28 | critic | critic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rights | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 leadership | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 leadership | det |
| 31 | Transnistrian | transnistrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 leadership | amod |
| 32 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 critic | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 November | punct |
| 34 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | threatening | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 received | xcomp |
| 36 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 threatening | obj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 attributed | obj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 attributed | nsubj |
| 39 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 calls | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 criticism | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 criticism | nmod:poss |
| 42 | criticism | criticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 attributed | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 regime | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 regime | det |
| 45 | separatist | separatist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 regime | compound |
| 46 | regime | regime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 criticism | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | november | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | threaten | gerund | calls | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus call=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | attribute | past | Transnistria | calls | to Transnistria's criticism of the separatist regime | 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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