Apia, sentence 13
From Wikipedia, «Apia», 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.
All the ships sank or were damaged beyond repair, except for the British cruiser Calliope, which managed to leave port, travelling at a rate of one mile per hour, and was able to ride out the storm.
Who acts: ships, Calliope · What happens: sink, damage, manage, leave, travel, be · To what, where: port, rate, storm
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Apia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, Calliope), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ships | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ships | det |
| 3 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sank | nsubj |
| 4 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 damaged | cc |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 damaged | aux:pass |
| 7 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sank | conj |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 9 repair | case |
| 9 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 damaged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Calliope | punct |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 Calliope | case |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 cruiser | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cruiser | det |
| 14 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cruiser | amod |
| 15 | cruiser | cruiser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Calliope | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Calliope | Calliope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 damaged | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 managed | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 managed | nsubj |
| 19 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Calliope | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 leave | mark |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 managed | xcomp |
| 22 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 travelling | punct |
| 24 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 leave | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 rate | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 rate | det |
| 27 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 travelling | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 mile | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 mile | nummod |
| 30 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rate | nmod |
| 31 | per | per | ADP | _ | 32 hour | case |
| 32 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mile | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 able | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 able | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 able | cop |
| 36 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sank | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 ride | mark |
| 38 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 able | xcomp |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 ride | compound:prt |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 storm | det |
| 41 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ride | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | all ships | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | damage | past · passive | all ships not said here | beyond repair; except Calliope for the British cruiser | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | manage | past | Calliope for the British cruiser | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | Calliope for the British cruiser not said here | port | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Theme | ||||
| 5 | travel | gerund | Calliope for the British cruiser not said here | a rate of one mile per hour | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | is | past | all ships not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ride out | to-infinitive | all ships not said here | the storm | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=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.
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