Vatican City, sentence 40
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A palace was constructed nearby as early as the 5th century during the pontificate of Pope Symmachus (reigned 498–514).
Who acts: Pope · What happens: construct, reign · To what, where: palace, 498
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 (Pope), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 constructed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 constructed | aux:pass |
| 4 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 4 constructed | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 early | advmod |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 constructed | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 century | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 century | det |
| 10 | 5th | 5th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 11 century | amod |
| 11 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 constructed | obl |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 pontificate | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pontificate | det |
| 14 | pontificate | pontificate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 constructed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Pope | case |
| 16 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pontificate | nmod |
| 17 | Symmachus | Symmachus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Pope | flat |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 reigned | punct |
| 19 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Pope | acl |
| 20 | 498 | 498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 reigned | obj |
| 21 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 514 | punct |
| 22 | 514 | 514 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 498 | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 reigned | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | past · passive | a palace | during the pontificate of Pope; century | early, nearby property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||
| 2 | reign | participle | Pope not said here | 498 | tree rules |
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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