Avarua, sentence 1
From Wikipedia, «Avarua», 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.
Avarua (meaning "two harbours" in Māori) is a district and township in the north of the island of Rarotonga, the largest island of the Cook Islands.
Who acts: Avarua · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: two harbours, Māori, district · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Avarua». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Avarua), 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 | Avarua | Avarua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 meaning | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 meaning | punct |
| 3 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 harbours | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 harbours | nummod |
| 6 | harbours | harbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meaning | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 harbours | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Māori | case |
| 9 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 harbours | nmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 harbours | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 district | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 district | det |
| 13 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meaning | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 township | cc |
| 15 | township | township | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 district | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 north | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 north | det |
| 18 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meaning | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 island | det |
| 21 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 north | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Rarotonga | case |
| 23 | Rarotonga | Rarotonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 island | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 island | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 island | det |
| 26 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 island | amod |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Rarotonga | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Islands | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Islands | det |
| 30 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Islands | compound |
| 31 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 island | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meaning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | gerund | Avarua | two harbours | Māori | in the north of the island of Rarotonga | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot harbour=Theme in north=Attribute | ||
| 2 | is a | present | a district and township | township conj | 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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