Washington, D.C., sentence 32
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In Federalist No. 43, published on January 23, 1788, James Madison argued that the new federal government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance and safety.
Who acts: James, new federal government, capital · What happens: publish, argue, need, provide, maintain · To what, where: Federalist, 23, authority, national capital · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Washington, D.C.». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (James, new federal government, capital), 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 Federalist | case |
| 2 | Federalist | Federalist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 argued | obl |
| 3 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 2 Federalist | flat |
| 4 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 No. | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 published | punct |
| 6 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Federalist | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 23 | case |
| 8 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 published | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 1788 | punct |
| 11 | 1788 | 1788 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 23 | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Federalist | punct |
| 13 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 argued | nsubj |
| 14 | Madison | Madison | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 James | flat |
| 15 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 need | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 government | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 government | amod |
| 19 | federal | federal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 government | amod |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 need | aux |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 argued | ccomp |
| 23 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 capital | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 capital | det |
| 26 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 capital | amod |
| 27 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 provide | mark |
| 29 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 need | advcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 maintenance | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 maintenance | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 maintenance | amod |
| 33 | maintenance | maintenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 provide | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 safety | cc |
| 35 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 maintenance | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 argued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | participle | Federalist not said here | 23 January | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | past | James | Federalist | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | need | would | the new federal government | authority | a national capital | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot authority=Theme | |||
| 4 | provide | to-infinitive | the new federal government not said here | for capital's own maintenance and safety | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for maintenance=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | maintain | capital | nom maintenance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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