Australia, sentence 272
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 executive branch of the Commonwealth government has overall control of the military through the minister of defence, who is subject to the decisions of Cabinet and its National Security Committee.
Who acts: executive branch, defence · What happens: have, be, decide · To what, where: overall control, minister, Cabinet
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 (executive branch, defence), 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 branch | det |
| 2 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 branch | amod |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 government | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 government | det |
| 6 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 government | compound |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 branch | nmod |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | overall | overall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 control | amod |
| 10 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 military | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 military | det |
| 13 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 control | nmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 minister | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 minister | det |
| 16 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 control | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 defence | case |
| 18 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 minister | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 subject | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 subject | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 subject | cop |
| 22 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 defence | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 decisions | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 decisions | det |
| 25 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 subject | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Cabinet | case |
| 27 | Cabinet | Cabinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 decisions | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Committee | cc |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 Committee | nmod:poss |
| 30 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Committee | amod |
| 31 | Security | Security | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Committee | compound |
| 32 | Committee | Committee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Cabinet | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the executive branch of the Commonwealth government | overall control of the military | the minister of defence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | defence | to the decisions of Cabinet and decision's National Security Committee; subject property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | decide | Cabinet and decision's National Security Committee | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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