Tripoli, Libya, sentence 175
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The city historically had at least three gates: Bab Hawwara to the southeast (probably Bab al-Mensha today), Bab Zenata (originally Bab al-Ashdar) to the west, and Bab al-Bahr to the north (close to the sea).
Who acts: city · What happens: have · To what, where: three gates
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 (city), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 least | case |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 three | nmod |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 gates | nummod |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hawwara | punct |
| 10 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hawwara | compound |
| 11 | Hawwara | Hawwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gates | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 southeast | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 southeast | det |
| 14 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Hawwara | nmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 al | punct |
| 16 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 18 al | advmod |
| 17 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 al | compound |
| 18 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hawwara | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Mensha | punct |
| 20 | Mensha | Mensha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 al | flat |
| 21 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 al | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 al | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bab | punct |
| 24 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hawwara | conj |
| 25 | Zenata | Zenata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Bab | flat |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Bab | punct |
| 27 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 28 Bab | advmod |
| 28 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hawwara | appos |
| 29 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Bab | flat |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ashdar | punct |
| 31 | Ashdar | Ashdar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Bab | flat |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 Bab | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 west | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 west | det |
| 35 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bahr | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Bahr | cc |
| 38 | Bab | Bab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Bahr | compound |
| 39 | al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Bab | flat |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Bahr | punct |
| 41 | Bahr | Bahr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 north | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 north | det |
| 44 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Bahr | nmod |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 close | punct |
| 46 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Bahr | parataxis |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 sea | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 sea | det |
| 49 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 close | obl |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 close | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the city | three gates Bab Hawwara to the southeast and Bab | to the west; Bab Bahr to the north obl; historically property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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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