Tuvalu, sentence 36
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The first recorded sighting of Nanumea by Europeans was by Spanish naval officer Francisco Mourelle de la Rúa who sailed past it on 5 May 1781 as captain of the frigate La Princesa, when attempting a southern crossing of the Pacific from the Philippines to New Spain.
Who acts: first recorded sighting, Spanish naval officer · What happens: record, be, sail, attempt, sight, cross · To what, where: 5, southern crossing, Philippines, Nanumea, Pacific
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tuvalu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first recorded sighting, Spanish naval officer), 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 | 4 sighting | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sighting | amod |
| 3 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sighting | amod |
| 4 | sighting | sighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 officer | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nanumea | case |
| 6 | Nanumea | Nanumea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sighting | nmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Europeans | case |
| 8 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Nanumea | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 officer | cop |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 officer | case |
| 11 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 officer | amod |
| 12 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 officer | amod |
| 13 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 officer | appos |
| 15 | Mourelle | Mourelle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Francisco | flat |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 Francisco | flat:foreign |
| 17 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 Rúa | compound |
| 18 | Rúa | Rúa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Francisco | flat |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sailed | nsubj |
| 20 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 officer | acl:relcl |
| 21 | past | past | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sailed | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 5 | case |
| 24 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 sailed | obl |
| 25 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 5 | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | 1781 | 1781 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 5 | flat |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 captain | case |
| 28 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sailed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 frigate | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 frigate | det |
| 31 | frigate | frigate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 captain | nmod |
| 32 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 frigate | appos |
| 33 | Princesa | Princesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 La | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 attempting | punct |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 attempting | advmod |
| 36 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sailed | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 crossing | det |
| 38 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 crossing | amod |
| 39 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 attempting | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Pacific | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Pacific | det |
| 42 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 crossing | nmod |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 Philippines | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Philippines | det |
| 45 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 36 attempting | obl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Spain | case |
| 47 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Spain | amod |
| 48 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Philippines | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 officer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the first recorded sighting of Nanumea by Europeans | by Spanish naval officer; Francisco appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sail | past | Spanish naval officer | 5 May | past sighting; as captain of the frigate | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | attempt | gerund | Spanish naval officer not said here | a southern crossing of the Pacific | the Philippines to New Spain | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crossing=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | sight | Nanumea by Europeans | nom sighting «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | cross | the Pacific | nom crossing «act transitive»: of=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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