Tunis, sentence 96
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During the later 19th century, Tunis became increasingly populated by Europeans, particularly the French, and immigration dramatically increased the size of the city.
Who acts: Tunis, immigration · What happens: become, populate, increase · To what, where: size
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 (Tunis, immigration), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 century | det |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 19th | advmod |
| 4 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 5 century | amod |
| 5 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 century | punct |
| 7 | Tunis | Tunis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 10 populated | advmod |
| 10 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 became | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Europeans | case |
| 12 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 populated | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 French | punct |
| 14 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 16 French | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 French | det |
| 16 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 increased | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 increased | cc |
| 19 | immigration | immigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 increased | nsubj |
| 20 | dramatically | dramatically | ADV | _ | 21 increased | advmod |
| 21 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 size | det |
| 23 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 increased | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 city | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 size | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Tunis | century | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | populate | participle | Tunis not said here | by Europeans; increasingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | increase | past | immigration | the size of the city | dramatically property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer size=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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