Vatican City, sentence 178
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Swiss mercenaries were historically recruited by popes as part of an army for the Papal States.
Who acts: popes · What happens: recruit · To what, where: Swiss mercenaries
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vatican City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popes), 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 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mercenaries | amod |
| 2 | mercenaries | mercenary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 recruited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recruited | aux:pass |
| 4 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 5 recruited | advmod |
| 5 | recruited | recruit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 popes | case |
| 7 | popes | pope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 recruited | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recruited | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 army | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 army | det |
| 12 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 States | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 States | det |
| 15 | Papal | Papal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 States | compound |
| 16 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 army | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recruited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recruit | past · passive | popes | Swiss mercenaries | as part of a army for the Papal States; historically property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as part=Attribute |
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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