Australia, sentence 134
From Wikipedia, «Australia», 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 Murray-Darling is the major river system, draining most of inland New South Wales and Southern Queensland towards Lake Alexandrina and the sea in South Australia.
Who acts: Murray Darling, major river system · What happens: be, drain · To what, where: major river system, most
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Murray Darling, major river system), 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 | 4 Darling | det |
| 2 | Murray | Murray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Darling | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Murray | punct |
| 4 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 system | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 system | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 system | det |
| 7 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 system | amod |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 system | compound |
| 9 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 draining | punct |
| 11 | draining | drain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 system | acl |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 draining | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Wales | case |
| 14 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 17 Wales | advmod |
| 15 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wales | compound |
| 16 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wales | compound |
| 17 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 most | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Queensland | cc |
| 19 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 20 Queensland | flat |
| 20 | Queensland | Queensland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Wales | conj |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 Lake | case |
| 22 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 draining | obl |
| 23 | Alexandrina | Alexandrina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Lake | flat |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sea | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 system | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Australia | case |
| 28 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Australia | compound |
| 29 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sea | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 system | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Murray Darling | the major river system and the sea in South Australia | the sea in South Australia conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drain | gerund | the major river system and the sea in South Australia not said here | most of New South Wales and Southern Queensland | towards Lake | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent most=Theme towards lake=Destination |
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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