Antigua and Barbuda, sentence 235
From Wikipedia, «Antigua and Barbuda», 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.
Benna uses a call-and-response format, and its audience is typically interested in obscene gossip and rumours.
Who acts: Benna, audience · What happens: use, be · To what, where: call, obscene gossip
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Antigua and Barbuda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benna, audience), 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 | Benna | Benna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 call | det |
| 4 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 format | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 format | cc |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 format | compound |
| 9 | format | format | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 interested | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 interested | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 audience | nmod:poss |
| 13 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interested | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 interested | cop |
| 15 | typically | typically | ADV | _ | 16 interested | advmod |
| 16 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 uses | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 gossip | case |
| 18 | obscene | obscene | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gossip | amod |
| 19 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 interested | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rumours | cc |
| 21 | rumours | rumour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gossip | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Benna | a call and response format | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | format's audience | obscene gossip and rumours | interested, typically property | tree rules |
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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