Canada, sentence 51
From Wikipedia, «Canada», 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.
In approximately 1000 AD, the Norse built a small short-lived encampment that was occupied sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland.
Who acts: Norse, small short lived encampment · What happens: build, live, be · To what, where: small short lived encampment, 1000 AD
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norse, small short lived encampment), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 AD | case |
| 2 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 1000 | advmod |
| 3 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 AD | nummod |
| 4 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 AD | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Norse | det |
| 7 | Norse | Norse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 built | nsubj |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 encampment | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 encampment | amod |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 encampment | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 encampment | amod |
| 14 | encampment | encampment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 occupied | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 occupied | cop |
| 17 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 encampment | acl:relcl |
| 18 | sporadically | sporadically | ADV | _ | 17 occupied | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 20 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 20 | advmod |
| 21 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 occupied | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Meadows | case |
| 24 | L'Anse | l'anse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Meadows | compound |
| 25 | aux | aux | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Meadows | compound |
| 26 | Meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 years | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 tip | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tip | det |
| 29 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tip | amod |
| 30 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Meadows | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Newfoundland | case |
| 32 | Newfoundland | Newfoundland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 tip | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Norse | a small short lived encampment | 1000 AD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encampment=Product | |||
| 2 | live | participle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | a small short lived encampment | year | occupied, sporadically 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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