Bolivia, sentence 277
From Wikipedia, «Bolivia», 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 law defines Mother Earth as "a collective subject of public interest," declaring both Mother Earth and life-systems (which combine human communities and ecosystems) as titleholders of inherent rights specified in the law.
Who acts: law, life systems · What happens: define, declare, combine, specify · To what, where: Mother Earth, human communities, inherent rights, law
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bolivia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, life systems), 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 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defines | nsubj |
| 3 | defines | define | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Earth | compound |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 defines | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 subject | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 subject | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 subject | det |
| 9 | collective | collective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 subject | amod |
| 10 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defines | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 interest | case |
| 12 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 interest | amod |
| 13 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 subject | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 declaring | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 declaring | punct |
| 16 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 defines | advcl |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Earth | nsubj |
| 18 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Earth | compound |
| 19 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 declaring | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 systems | cc |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 systems | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 life | punct |
| 23 | systems | system | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 declaring | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 combine | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 combine | nsubj |
| 26 | combine | combine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 systems | acl:relcl |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 communities | amod |
| 28 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 combine | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ecosystems | cc |
| 30 | ecosystems | ecosystem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 communities | conj |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 systems | punct |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 titleholders | case |
| 33 | titleholders | titleholder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 declaring | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 rights | case |
| 35 | inherent | inherent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rights | amod |
| 36 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 titleholders | nmod |
| 37 | specified | specify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 rights | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 law | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 law | det |
| 40 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 specified | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 defines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | define | present | the law | Mother Earth | as a collective subject of public interest | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent earth=Theme as subject=Attribute | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | gerund | the law not said here | Mother Earth | as titleholders of inherent rights; life systems conj | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as titleholder=Attribute | |||
| 3 | combine | present | life systems | human communities and ecosystems | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent community=Patient | ||||
| 4 | specify | participle | inherent rights not said here | the law | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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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