Tunisia, sentence 94
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In the last years of the Hafsid dynasty, Spain seized many of the coastal cities, but these were recovered by the Ottoman Empire.
Who acts: Spain, Ottoman Empire · What happens: seize, recover · To what, where: many, these
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tunisia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spain, Ottoman Empire), 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 | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seized | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dynasty | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dynasty | det |
| 7 | Hafsid | Hafsid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dynasty | compound |
| 8 | dynasty | dynasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 10 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seized | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cities | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cities | det |
| 15 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cities | amod |
| 16 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 many | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recovered | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 recovered | cc |
| 19 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 recovered | aux:pass |
| 21 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 seized | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Empire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Empire | det |
| 24 | Ottoman | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Empire | compound |
| 25 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 recovered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Spain | many of the coastal cities | year | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | |||
| 2 | recover | past · passive | the Ottoman Empire | these | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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