Apia, sentence 53
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.
The Samoatel building (2004) which is the site for Samoa's international telecommunications hub, was built inland at Maluafou, also to protect it from the effects of seasonal cyclones.
Who acts: Samoatel building · What happens: be, build, protect, effect · To what, where: site, Samoatel building, Maluafou, building, seasonal cyclones
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 (Samoatel building), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 building | det |
| 2 | Samoatel | Samoatel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 building | compound |
| 3 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 2004 | punct |
| 5 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 building | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 2004 | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 site | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 site | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 site | det |
| 10 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 building | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 hub | case |
| 12 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hub | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Samoa | case |
| 14 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 telecommunications | amod |
| 15 | telecommunications | telecommunication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hub | compound |
| 16 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 site | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 building | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 built | aux:pass |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 19 built | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 Maluafou | case |
| 22 | Maluafou | Maluafou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 built | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 protect | punct |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 protect | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 protect | mark |
| 26 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 built | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 protect | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 effects | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 effects | det |
| 30 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 protect | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 cyclones | case |
| 32 | seasonal | seasonal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cyclones | amod |
| 33 | cyclones | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 effects | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Samoatel building 2004 and the site | the site | for Samoa's telecommunications hub | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | the Samoatel building 2004 and the site | Maluafou | inland property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | building | from the effects of seasonal cyclones | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from effect=Theme | ||||
| 4 | effect | seasonal cyclones | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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