Tunis, sentence 31
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Both the town and Carthage were destroyed; the former, however, was rebuilt first under the rule of Augustus and became an important town under Roman control and the center of a booming agricultural industry.
Who acts: Augustus · What happens: destroy, rebuild, become, boom, rule · To what, where: town, rule, important town
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Augustus), 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 town | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Carthage | cc |
| 5 | Carthage | Carthage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 town | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 7 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 former | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 former | det |
| 10 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 destroyed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rebuilt | punct |
| 12 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 rebuilt | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 however | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 15 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 former | parataxis |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 rebuilt | advmod |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 rule | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rule | det |
| 19 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rebuilt | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Augustus | case |
| 21 | Augustus | Augustus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 rule | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 became | cc |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rebuilt | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 25 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 town | amod |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | xcomp |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 control | case |
| 28 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 control | amod |
| 29 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 town | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 center | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 center | det |
| 32 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 control | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 industry | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 industry | det |
| 35 | booming | boom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 industry | amod |
| 36 | agricultural | agricultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 industry | amod |
| 37 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 center | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past · passive | the town and Carthage | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rebuild | past · passive | the rule of Augustus | first, however property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | become | past | a important town under Roman control and the center of a booming agricultural industry | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | boom | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | rule | Augustus | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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