Cape Verde, sentence 125
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.
Western Hemisphere-bound hurricanes often have their early beginnings near the Cape Verde Islands.
Who acts: Western bound hurricanes, hurricanes · What happens: have, begin · To what, where: early beginnings, Cape Verde Islands
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 (Western bound hurricanes, hurricanes), 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 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hurricanes | amod |
| 2 | Hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hemisphere | punct |
| 4 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hurricanes | amod |
| 5 | hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beginnings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beginnings | amod |
| 10 | beginnings | beginning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 Islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Islands | det |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Islands | compound |
| 14 | Verde | Verde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Islands | compound |
| 15 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 beginnings | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Western bound hurricanes | hurricanes's early beginnings | the Cape Verde Islands | often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Patient | ||
| 2 | begin | hurricanes = hurricane | the Cape Verde Islands | nom beginning «event transitive»: poss=agent near=place |
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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