Cape Verde, sentence 1
From Wikipedia, «Cape Verde», 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.
Cape Verde, also referred to in English by its Portuguese name Cabo Verde, and known officially as the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa.
Who acts: Cape, its · What happens: refer, know, be, name · To what, where: Cape, English, archipelagic country, eastern Atlantic Ocean
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Verde». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cape, its), 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 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 country | nsubj |
| 2 | Verde | Verde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cape | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 referred | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 referred | advmod |
| 5 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cape | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 referred | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 English | case |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 referred | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 name | amod |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 referred | obl |
| 13 | Cabo | Cabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Verde | compound |
| 14 | Verde | Verde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 name | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 known | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 known | cc |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cape | parataxis |
| 18 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 17 known | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Republic | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Republic | det |
| 21 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 known | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Verde | case |
| 23 | Cabo | Cabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Verde | compound |
| 24 | Verde | Verde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Republic | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cape | punct |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 country | cop |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 country | det |
| 28 | archipelagic | archipelagic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 country | amod |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Ocean | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Ocean | det |
| 32 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Ocean | amod |
| 33 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Ocean | compound |
| 34 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 country | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 coast | punct |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 coast | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 coast | det |
| 38 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 country | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Africa | case |
| 40 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Africa | compound |
| 41 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 coast | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | participle | Cape not said here | English | by its Portuguese name | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | participle | as the Republic of Cabo Verde; officially property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as republic=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Cape | a archipelagic country and the coast of West Africa | the eastern Atlantic Ocean | the coast of West Africa conj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | name | its = it | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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