Benin, sentence 3
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.
The majority of its population lives on the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, part of the Gulf of Guinea in the northernmost tropical portion of the Atlantic Ocean.
Who acts: majority · What happens: live · To what, where: southern coastline
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 (majority), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 majority | det |
| 2 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 population | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 population | nmod:poss |
| 5 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 majority | nmod |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 coastline | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coastline | det |
| 9 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coastline | amod |
| 10 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Bight | det |
| 13 | Bight | Bight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coastline | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Benin | case |
| 15 | Benin | Benin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Bight | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Bight | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Gulf | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Gulf | det |
| 20 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Guinea | case |
| 22 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Gulf | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 portion | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 portion | det |
| 25 | northernmost | northernmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 portion | amod |
| 26 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 portion | amod |
| 27 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Ocean | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Ocean | det |
| 30 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Ocean | compound |
| 31 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 portion | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the majority of majority's population | the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coastline=Location |
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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