Tripoli, Libya, sentence 15
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The Phoenicians were probably attracted to the site by its natural harbor, flanked on the western shore by the small, easily defensible peninsula, on which they established their colony.
Who acts: natural harbor, Phoenicians · What happens: attract, flank, establish · To what, where: Phoenicians, natural harbor, western shore, colony
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tripoli, Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natural harbor, Phoenicians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Phoenicians | det |
| 2 | Phoenicians | Phoenician | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attracted | aux:pass |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 attracted | advmod |
| 5 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 site | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 site | det |
| 8 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracted | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 harbor | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 harbor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 harbor | amod |
| 12 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attracted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flanked | punct |
| 14 | flanked | flank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 harbor | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 17 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shore | amod |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flanked | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 peninsula | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 peninsula | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 peninsula | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 peninsula | punct |
| 23 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 24 defensible | advmod |
| 24 | defensible | defensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 peninsula | amod |
| 25 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flanked | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 established | punct |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 established | obl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 established | nsubj |
| 30 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attracted | conj |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 colony | nmod:poss |
| 32 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 established | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past · passive | site's natural harbor | the Phoenicians | to the site result; probably property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to site=Result | |||
| 2 | flank | participle | site's natural harbor not said here | the western shore | by the small defensible peninsula | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | establish | past | Phoenicians = phoenician | Phoenicians's colony | which obl | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colony=Theme on which=Source |
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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