Vatican City, sentence 64
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One of the main diplomatic priorities of Pius XII was to prevent the bombing of Rome.
Who acts: One · What happens: be, bomb · To what, where: Rome
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 (One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 prevent | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 priorities | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 priorities | det |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 priorities | amod |
| 5 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 priorities | amod |
| 6 | priorities | priority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 XII | case |
| 8 | Pius | Pius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 XII | compound |
| 9 | XII | XII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 priorities | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prevent | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prevent | mark |
| 12 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bombing | det |
| 14 | bombing | bombing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prevent | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Rome | case |
| 16 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bombing | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One of the main diplomatic priorities of Pius XII | the bombing of Rome obj; prevent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bomb | Rome | nom bombing «act transitive»: of=patient |
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