Accra, sentence 129
From Wikipedia, «Accra», 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.
These taxis usually function on a shared ride model, where several passengers share one vehicle and the fare is calculated based on the distance traveled.
Who acts: taxis, several passengers, distance · What happens: function, share, calculate, base, travel · To what, where: one vehicle, fare
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Accra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taxis, several passengers, distance), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 taxis | det |
| 2 | taxis | taxi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 function | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 function | advmod |
| 4 | function | function | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 model | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 model | det |
| 7 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 model | amod |
| 8 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 model | compound |
| 9 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 function | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 share | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 share | advmod |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 passengers | amod |
| 13 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 share | nsubj |
| 14 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 function | parataxis |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 vehicle | nummod |
| 16 | vehicle | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 share | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 calculated | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fare | det |
| 19 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calculated | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 calculated | aux:pass |
| 21 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 share | conj |
| 22 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 calculated | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 26 traveled | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 distance | det |
| 25 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 traveled | nsubj |
| 26 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 based | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 function | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | function | present | this taxis | on a shared ride model; usually property | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | share | present | several passengers | one vehicle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | calculate | present · passive | the fare | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | travel | past | the distance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Accra», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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