Apia, sentence 144
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.
It was the first time a tournament officially sanctioned by the International Cricket Council had been held in the region.
Who acts: team, first time · What happens: be, sanction, hold · To what, where: first time, tournament, region
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 (team, first time), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tournament | det |
| 7 | tournament | tournament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 9 sanctioned | advmod |
| 9 | sanctioned | sanction | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tournament | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Council | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Council | det |
| 12 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Council | amod |
| 13 | Cricket | Cricket | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Council | compound |
| 14 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sanctioned | obl |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 held | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 held | aux:pass |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 region | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 region | det |
| 20 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | team | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sanction | participle | a tournament not said here | by the International Cricket Council; officially property | vn allow-64.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 3 | hold | past · perfect · passive | the first time not said here | a tournament | the region | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in region=Location |
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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