Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The day marks the anniversary to that country’s independence from Malaysia in 1965.
(Parse)
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(PP (TO to)
(NP (NP (NP (DT that) (NN country) (POS 's)) (NN independence))
(PP (IN from)
(NP (NNP Malaysia)))
(PP (IN in)
(NP (CD 1965))))
(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
Ciskei was one of 10 “homelands” or bantustans created under the apartheid regime; four of these, including Ciskei, had accepted a nominal independence from South Africa which no other country had recognized, but which constituted an additional obstacle to the transition to a post-apartheid South Africa.
(Parse)
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(: ;)
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(, ,)
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(, ,)
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(, ,) (CC but)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
As you’ve no doubt heard, Kosovo has declared its independence from Serbia, and it is now recognized as a sovreign nation by the U.S. and the E. U. It’s telling how different news providers chose to cover this event.
(Parse)
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(VP (VBN heard)))))
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(S (NP (NNP Kosovo))
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(, ,) (CC and)
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(. .)
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(S (NP (JJ different) (NN news) (NNS providers))
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(S (VP (TO to)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“Maybe I’ll have the chance to prove it.” “Toussaint, “Glover’s first project as film director, is about Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743 – 1803), a former slave and one of the fathers of Haiti’s independence from France in 1804, making it the first black nation to throw off imperial rule and become a republic.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
M. Hertzog to assert South Africa’s “independence” from Britain.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NNP M.) (NNP Hertzog))
(VP (TO to)
(VP (VB assert)
(NP (NP (NP (NNP South) (NNP Africa) (POS 's)) ('' '') (NN independence)) ('' '')
(PP (IN from)
(NP (NNP Britain)))
(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
It will be the first official meeting between an Irish president and a British sovereign since Ireland achieved independence from Britain 71 years ago.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (PRP It))
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(VBN achieved) (NN independence))
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(NP (NNP Britain)) (ADVP (NP (CD 71) (NNS years)) (RB ago)))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
At that time, shortly before the upcoming breakup of Yugoslavia, tensions broke out between the constituent countries of the Yugoslav federation, so the issue of an eventual Croatian independence from Yugoslavia started to rise.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (PP (IN At)
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(, ,) (IN so)
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(VP (VBD started)
(S (VP (TO to)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Investigators say some $ 400 billion has been stolen or squandered since the country ` s 1960 independence from Britain.
(Parse)
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(S (NP (DT the) (NN country))
(VP (`` `) (VBZ s)
(NP (NP (CD 1960) (NN independence))
(PP (IN from)
(NP (NNP Britain))))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
The team was the first Guinean champion after the independence from Portugal and played in the Preleminary round of the CAF Champions League 2007.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (DT The) (NN team))
(VP (VP (AUX was)
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(CC and)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
After neighbouring Algeria’s 1962 independence from France, border skirmishes in the Tindouf area of south – western Algeria, escalated in 1963 into what is known as the Sand War.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (PP (IN After)
(S (VP (VBG neighbouring)
(NP (NP (NP (NNP Algeria) (POS 's)) (CD 1962) (NN independence))
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(NP (NNP France))))
(, ,)
(NP (NP (NN border) (NNS skirmishes))
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(VP (VBD escalated)
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(S (VP (AUX is)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
In contrast, the Georgian Mensheviks regarded the independence from Russia as a temporary step against the Bolshevik revolution and considered the calls for Georgia’s independence chauvinistic and separatist.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (PP (IN In)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Instead, the Americans continued to push for NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia, decided to place U.S. missile defenses near the Russian border and egged the Europeans on in granting Kosovo an independence from Serbia that Russians refuse to recognize.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (ADVP (RB Instead)) (, ,)
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(, ,)
(VP (VBD decided)
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(VP (VBN egged)
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(SBAR (IN that)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The African union chairman Alpha Konare and Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan are trying to mediate and solve the crisis but Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga remain far apart on how to resolve the crisis, the worst the country has suffered since its 1963 independence from Britain.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (NP (NP (DT The) (NNP African) (NN union) (NN chairman) (NNP Alpha) (NNP Konare)) (CC and)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The Japanese, while extremely pacifist in nature and constitution, want a real independence from the US and want to become a normal nation: Sovereign, free and independent.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (DT The) (NNPS Japanese)) (, ,)
(SBAR (IN while)
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(, ,)
(VP (VP (VBP want)
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
These ranks originate from those adopted upon Brazil’s independence from Portugal in 1822.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (DT These) (NNS ranks))
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Investigators say some $ 400 billion has been stolen or squandered since the country’s 1960 independence from Britain.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NNS Investigators))
(VP (VBP say)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Ms. Basargina’s nephew had recently disappeared; the police had said he joined the small but smoldering insurgency fighting for Chechnya’s independence from Russia.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (NP (NP (NNP Ms.) (NNP Basargina) (POS 's)) (NN nephew))
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(: ;)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Indian government spends hundreds of million dollars in Kashmir and these ungrateful people wants a independence from India. lets give them a taste of this independence.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (S (S (NP (NNP Indian) (NN government))
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(PP (IN of)
(NP (CD million) (NNS dollars))))
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(CC and)
(S (NP (DT these) (JJ ungrateful) (NNS people))
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(. .))
(VP (VBZ lets)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Mauritania has been beset with a long succession of coups, with the military involved in nearly every government since the country’s independence from France.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (NNP Mauritania))
(VP (AUX has)
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(, ,)
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(PP (IN from)
(NP (NNP France))))
(. .)))
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