Basseterre, sentence 75
From Wikipedia, «Basseterre», 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.
Public buses have a green license plate starting with the letter "H".
Who acts: Public buses, green license plate · What happens: have, start · To what, where: green license plate
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Basseterre». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Public buses, green license plate), 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 | Public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 buses | amod |
| 2 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plate | det |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plate | amod |
| 6 | license | license | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plate | compound |
| 7 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 plate | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 letter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 letter | det |
| 11 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 starting | obl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 H | punct |
| 13 | H | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letter | appos |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 H | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Public buses | a green license plate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | ||||
| 2 | start | gerund | a green license plate not said here | with the letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality |
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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