Benin, sentence 105
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.
It is marshy and dotted with lakes and lagoons communicating with the ocean.
Who acts: variation, lagoons · What happens: be, dot, communicate
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 (variation, lagoons), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 marshy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marshy | cop |
| 3 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dotted | cc |
| 5 | dotted | dot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 marshy | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 lakes | case |
| 7 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dotted | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lagoons | cc |
| 9 | lagoons | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lakes | conj |
| 10 | communicating | communicate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lagoons | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ocean | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ocean | det |
| 13 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 communicating | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marshy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | variation | marshy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dot | participle | variation not said here | with lakes and lagoons | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lake=Theme | ||||
| 3 | communicate | gerund | lagoons not said here | with the ocean | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with ocean=Co-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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