Tuvalu, sentence 92
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Harry Clifford Fassett, captain's clerk and photographer, recorded people, communities and scenes at Funafuti in 1900 during a visit of USFC Albatross when the United States Fish Commission was investigating the formation of coral reefs on Pacific atolls.
Who acts: States Fish Commission · What happens: record, investigate, visit · To what, where: formation, Harry, USFC Albatross
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 (States Fish Commission), 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 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Clifford | Clifford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Harry | flat |
| 3 | Fassett | Fassett | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Harry | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clerk | punct |
| 5 | captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 clerk | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 captain | case |
| 7 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Harry | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 photographer | cc |
| 9 | photographer | photographer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clerk | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 11 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clerk | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 communities | punct |
| 14 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 people | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scenes | cc |
| 16 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 people | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Funafuti | case |
| 18 | Funafuti | Funafuti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 people | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1900 | case |
| 20 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 people | nmod |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 23 visit | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 visit | det |
| 23 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 1900 | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Albatross | case |
| 25 | USFC | USFC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Albatross | compound |
| 26 | Albatross | Albatross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 visit | nmod |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 investigating | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Commission | det |
| 29 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 States | amod |
| 30 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 Commission | compound |
| 31 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Commission | compound |
| 32 | Commission | Commission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 investigating | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 investigating | aux |
| 34 | investigating | investigate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 visit | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 formation | det |
| 36 | formation | formation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 investigating | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 reefs | case |
| 38 | coral | coral | NOUN | _ | 39 reefs | compound |
| 39 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 formation | nmod |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 atolls | case |
| 41 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 atolls | compound |
| 42 | atolls | atoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 reefs | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Harry | 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 | investigate | past · progressive | the States Fish Commission | the formation of coral reefs on Pacific atolls | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent formation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | visit | USFC Albatross | nom visit «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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