Benin, sentence 102
From Wikipedia, «Benin», 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.
Four terrestrial ecoregions lie within Benin's borders: Eastern Guinean forests, Nigerian lowland forests, Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, and West Sudanian savanna.
Who acts: Four terrestrial ecoregions · What happens: lie · To what, where: Sudanian savanna
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Benin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Four terrestrial ecoregions), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ecoregions | nummod |
| 2 | terrestrial | terrestrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ecoregions | amod |
| 3 | ecoregions | ecoregion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 borders | case |
| 6 | Benin | Benin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 borders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Benin | case |
| 8 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 forests | punct |
| 10 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forests | amod |
| 11 | Guinean | guinean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forests | amod |
| 12 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 borders | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forests | punct |
| 14 | Nigerian | nigerian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 forests | amod |
| 15 | lowland | lowland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forests | compound |
| 16 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forests | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mosaic | punct |
| 18 | Guinean | guinean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mosaic | amod |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 savanna | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 forest | punct |
| 21 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mosaic | compound |
| 22 | mosaic | mosaic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forests | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 savanna | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 savanna | cc |
| 25 | West | west | ADV | _ | 26 Sudanian | advmod |
| 26 | Sudanian | sudanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 savanna | amod |
| 27 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Four terrestrial ecoregions | Sudanian savanna | within Benin's borders | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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