Venezuela, sentence 654
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The renunciation of most of the decorative elements and variegated ostentations of fanciful baroque, the impossibility of using expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen, contributed to establish a modest but well-defined physiognomy of the colonial architecture.
Who acts: impossibility · What happens: variegate, use, contribute, establish, define, ostentate · To what, where: ostentations, expensive materials, modest defined physiognomy, renunciation, fanciful baroque, craftsmen
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (impossibility), 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 renunciation | det |
| 2 | renunciation | renunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 most | case |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 renunciation | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 elements | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elements | det |
| 7 | decorative | decorative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 elements | amod |
| 8 | elements | element | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 most | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 variegated | cc |
| 10 | variegated | variegate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 most | conj |
| 11 | ostentations | ostentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 variegated | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 baroque | case |
| 13 | fanciful | fanciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 baroque | amod |
| 14 | baroque | baroque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ostentations | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 impossibility | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 impossibility | det |
| 17 | impossibility | impossibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 baroque | appos |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 using | mark |
| 19 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 impossibility | acl |
| 20 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 materials | amod |
| 21 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 using | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lack | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lack | det |
| 24 | consequent | consequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lack | amod |
| 25 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 materials | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 craftsmen | case |
| 27 | craftsmen | craftsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lack | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 contributed | punct |
| 29 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 materials | acl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 establish | mark |
| 31 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 contributed | xcomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 physiognomy | det |
| 33 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 physiognomy | amod |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 defined | cc |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 defined | advmod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 well | punct |
| 37 | defined | define | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 physiognomy | amod |
| 38 | physiognomy | physiognomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 establish | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 architecture | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 architecture | det |
| 41 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 architecture | amod |
| 42 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 physiognomy | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 renunciation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | variegate | past | ostentations of fanciful baroque | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | use | gerund | the impossibility not said here | expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient | ||||
| 3 | contribute | participle | expensive materials and the consequent lack of craftsmen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | establish | to-infinitive | a modest defined physiognomy of the colonial architecture | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physiognomy=Patient | |||||
| 5 | define | participle | well property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | ostentate | fanciful baroque | nom ostentation «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | lack | craftsmen | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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