Australia, sentence 151
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.
There were active volcanoes on the eastern mainland as recently as 4,600 years ago, and this is reflected in Aboriginal place names and creation stories.
Who acts: active volcanoes · What happens: be, reflect · To what, where: eastern mainland, this, Aboriginal place names
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 (active volcanoes), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 volcanoes | amod |
| 4 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mainland | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mainland | det |
| 7 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mainland | amod |
| 8 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 12 4,600 | advmod |
| 10 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 12 | 4,600 | 4,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 were | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reflected | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reflected | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 reflected | aux:pass |
| 19 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 were | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 names | case |
| 21 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 names | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 names | compound |
| 23 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reflected | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stories | cc |
| 25 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stories | compound |
| 26 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 names | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | active volcanoes | the eastern mainland; there | ago property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mainland=Location | |||
| 2 | reflect | present · passive | this | Aboriginal place names and creation stories | tree rules |
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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