Abuja, sentence 76
From Wikipedia, «Abuja», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
A well-known government office is the Ministry of Defense, colloquially nicknamed "Ship House".
Who acts: known government office · What happens: know, be, nickname · To what, where: Ministry
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Abuja». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (known government office), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 office | det |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 known | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 well | punct |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 office | amod |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 office | compound |
| 6 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Ministry | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Ministry | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ministry | det |
| 9 | Ministry | Ministry | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Defense | case |
| 11 | Defense | Defense | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ministry | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nicknamed | punct |
| 13 | colloquially | colloquially | ADV | _ | 14 nicknamed | advmod |
| 14 | nicknamed | nickname | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Ministry | acl:relcl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 House | punct |
| 16 | Ship | Ship | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 House | compound |
| 17 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nicknamed | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 House | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ministry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a known government office | the Ministry | of Defense | tree rules | |||
| 3 | nickname | participle | the Ministry not said here | Ship House xcomp; colloquially property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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