Benin, sentence 5
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.
Benin covers an area of 112,622 km2, and its population in 2026 was estimated to be approximately.
What happens: cover, estimate, be · To what, where: area, population
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: 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 | Benin | benin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 covers | amod |
| 2 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 area | det |
| 4 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covers | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 112,622 | case |
| 6 | 112,622 | 112,622 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 area | nmod |
| 7 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 112,622 | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 estimated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 estimated | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 population | nmod:poss |
| 11 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 estimated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 2026 | case |
| 13 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 population | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 estimated | aux:pass |
| 15 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 covers | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 approximately | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 approximately | cop |
| 18 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 15 estimated | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | a area of 112,622 | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Destination | |||||
| 2 | estimate | past · passive | area's population in 2026 | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | approximately property | 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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