Vatican City, sentence 86
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The head of the Vatican's Department of Technical Services robustly rejected challenges to the Vatican State's right to build within its borders.
Who acts: head · What happens: reject, build · To what, where: challenges
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 (head), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rejected | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Department | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Vatican | det |
| 5 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Department | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Vatican | case |
| 7 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 head | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Services | case |
| 9 | Technical | technical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Services | amod |
| 10 | Services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 head | nmod |
| 11 | robustly | robustly | ADV | _ | 12 rejected | advmod |
| 12 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | challenges | challenge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rejected | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 right | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 right | det |
| 16 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 right | compound |
| 17 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 right | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 State | case |
| 19 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rejected | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 build | mark |
| 21 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 right | acl |
| 22 | within | within | ADP | _ | 24 borders | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 borders | nmod:poss |
| 24 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 build | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rejected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reject | past | the head of the Vatican's Department of Technical Services | challenges | to State's Vatican right; robustly property | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | the head of the Vatican's Department of Technical Services not said here | within right's borders | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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