Australia, sentence 352
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.
In Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework developed in Aboriginal Australia, the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings formed The Creation.
Who acts: Dreaming, ancestral totemic spirit beings · What happens: develop, be, form · To what, where: animist framework, Aboriginal Australia, sacred era, Australian Aboriginal mythology, Creation
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 (Dreaming, ancestral totemic spirit beings), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 mythology | case |
| 2 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mythology | amod |
| 3 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mythology | amod |
| 4 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 era | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 framework | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 framework | det |
| 7 | animist | animist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 framework | compound |
| 8 | framework | framework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mythology | conj |
| 9 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 framework | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Australia | case |
| 11 | Aboriginal | Aboriginal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Australia | compound |
| 12 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 developed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mythology | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dreaming | det |
| 15 | Dreaming | dreaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 era | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 era | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 era | det |
| 18 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 era | amod |
| 19 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 formed | obl |
| 22 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beings | amod |
| 23 | totemic | totemic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beings | amod |
| 24 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beings | compound |
| 25 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 formed | nsubj |
| 26 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 era | advcl |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Creation | det |
| 28 | Creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 formed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 era | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | develop | participle | the animist framework not said here | Aboriginal Australia | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Dreaming | a sacred era | Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework | tree rules | |||
| 3 | form | past | ancestral totemic spirit beings | the Creation | a sacred era | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creation=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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