Asunción, sentence 115
From Wikipedia, «Asunción», 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.
During the southern winter, when the water is abundantly high, the bay is largely underwater, but towards the end of the season when the water level drops, sandy and clay beaches (tidal marsh) appear.
Who acts: water, bay, water level, clay beaches · What happens: be, drop, appear
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Asunción». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, bay, water level, clay beaches), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 winter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 winter | det |
| 3 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winter | amod |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 high | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 winter | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 high | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 high | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | cop |
| 10 | abundantly | abundantly | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 underwater | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bay | det |
| 14 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 underwater | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 underwater | cop |
| 16 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 17 underwater | advmod |
| 17 | underwater | underwater | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 high | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sandy | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 sandy | cc |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sandy | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 season | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 season | det |
| 25 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 drops | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 level | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 level | compound |
| 29 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drops | nsubj |
| 30 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 end | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 end | punct |
| 32 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 high | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 beaches | cc |
| 34 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 beaches | compound |
| 35 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 appear | nsubj |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 marsh | punct |
| 37 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 marsh | amod |
| 38 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 beaches | appos |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 marsh | punct |
| 40 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 sandy | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the water | winter | abundantly, high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the bay | largely, underwater property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drop | present | the water level | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | the water not said here | towards the end of the season | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | appear | present | clay beaches | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.
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