Valletta, sentence 36
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The streets were designed to be wide and straight, beginning centrally from the City Gate and ending at Fort Saint Elmo (which was rebuilt) overlooking the Mediterranean; certain bastions were built 47 m high.
What happens: design, be, begin, end, rebuild, overlook · To what, where: streets, City Gate, Fort Saint, Mediterranean, certain bastions
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Valletta». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 streets | det |
| 2 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 designed | aux:pass |
| 4 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wide | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wide | cop |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 designed | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 straight | cc |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wide | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beginning | punct |
| 11 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 designed | conj |
| 12 | centrally | centrally | ADV | _ | 11 beginning | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gate | det |
| 15 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gate | compound |
| 16 | Gate | Gate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 beginning | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ending | cc |
| 18 | ending | end | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 beginning | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Saint | case |
| 20 | Fort | Fort | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Saint | compound |
| 21 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ending | obl |
| 22 | Elmo | Elmo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Saint | flat |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 rebuilt | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 rebuilt | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 26 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Saint | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 rebuilt | punct |
| 28 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 rebuilt | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mediterranean | det |
| 30 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 overlooking | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 built | punct |
| 32 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bastions | amod |
| 33 | bastions | bastion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 built | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 built | aux:pass |
| 35 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 designed | conj |
| 36 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 m | nummod |
| 37 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 high | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 built | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 designed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | past · passive | the streets | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | wide property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | begin | gerund | the City Gate | centrally property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | end | gerund | Fort Saint | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | rebuild | past · passive | Fort Saint | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 7 | overlook | gerund | the Mediterranean | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Theme | |||||
| 8 | build | past · passive | certain bastions | high property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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