Vatican City, sentence 284
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In 2008, the Vatican began an "ecological island" for renewable waste and has continued the initiative throughout the papacy of Francis.
Who acts: Vatican · What happens: begin, continue · To what, where: ecological island, 2008, initiative
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 (Vatican), 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 | _ | 2 2008 | case |
| 2 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 began | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2008 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Vatican | det |
| 5 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 island | punct |
| 9 | ecological | ecological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 island | amod |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 island | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 waste | case |
| 13 | renewable | renewable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 waste | amod |
| 14 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 continued | cc |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 continued | aux |
| 17 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 began | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 initiative | det |
| 19 | initiative | initiative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 continued | obj |
| 20 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 22 papacy | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 papacy | det |
| 22 | papacy | papacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 continued | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Francis | case |
| 24 | Francis | Francis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 papacy | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Vatican | a ecological island | 2008 | for renewable waste | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | continue | present · perfect | the Vatican not said here | the initiative | throughout the papacy of Francis | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent initiative=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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