Vatican City, sentence 71
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In December 1942, the British envoy to the Holy See suggested that Rome be declared an open city, a suggestion that the Holy See took more seriously than was probably meant by the envoy, who did not want Rome to be an open city.
Who acts: British envoy, Holy See, envoy, Rome · What happens: suggest, declare, take, mean, not want, be · To what, where: suggestion, Rome, open city · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (British envoy, Holy See, envoy, Rome), 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 December | case |
| 2 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 suggested | obl |
| 3 | 1942 | 1942 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 December | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 envoy | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 envoy | amod |
| 7 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suggested | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 See | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 See | det |
| 10 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 11 See | compound |
| 11 | See | See | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 envoy | nmod |
| 12 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 declared | mark |
| 14 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 declared | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 declared | aux:pass |
| 16 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 suggested | ccomp |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 declared | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 suggestion | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 suggestion | det |
| 22 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suggested | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 took | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 See | det |
| 25 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 26 See | compound |
| 26 | See | See | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 suggestion | acl |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 seriously | advmod |
| 29 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 27 took | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 meant | mark |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 meant | aux:pass |
| 32 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 33 meant | advmod |
| 33 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 took | advcl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 envoy | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 envoy | det |
| 36 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 meant | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 want | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 want | nsubj |
| 39 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 want | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 want | advmod |
| 41 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 envoy | acl:relcl |
| 42 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 want | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 city | mark |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 city | cop |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 city | det |
| 46 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 city | amod |
| 47 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 want | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the British envoy to the Holy See | a suggestion | december | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | infinitive · passive | Rome | a open city obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme city=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the Holy See | a suggestion not said here | seriously property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suggestion=Theme | |||
| 4 | mean | past · passive | the envoy | probably property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not want | past · do-support | the envoy | Rome | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rome=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rome not said here | a open city | 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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