Cape Verde, sentence 139
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.
Endemic birds include Alexander's swift (Apus alexandri), Bourne's heron (Ardea purpurea bournei), the Raso lark (Alauda razae), the Cape Verde warbler (Acrocephalus brevipennis), and the Iago sparrow (Passer iagoensis).
Who acts: Endemic birds · What happens: include · To what, where: swift
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 (Endemic birds), 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 | Endemic | Endemic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | compound |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | nsubj |
| 3 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 swift | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Alexander | case |
| 6 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 include | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 alexandri | punct |
| 8 | Apus | Apus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 alexandri | compound |
| 9 | alexandri | alexandri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swift | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 alexandri | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heron | punct |
| 12 | Bourne | Bourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 heron | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Bourne | case |
| 14 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swift | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 bournei | punct |
| 16 | Ardea | Ardea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bournei | compound |
| 17 | purpurea | purpurea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bournei | compound |
| 18 | bournei | bournei | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heron | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 bournei | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lark | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lark | det |
| 22 | Raso | Raso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lark | compound |
| 23 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swift | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 razae | punct |
| 25 | Alauda | Alauda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 razae | compound |
| 26 | razae | razae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lark | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 razae | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 warbler | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 warbler | det |
| 30 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Verde | compound |
| 31 | Verde | Verde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 warbler | compound |
| 32 | warbler | warbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swift | conj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 brevipennis | punct |
| 34 | Acrocephalus | Acrocephalus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 brevipennis | compound |
| 35 | brevipennis | brevipennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 warbler | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 brevipennis | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sparrow | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sparrow | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sparrow | det |
| 40 | Iago | Iago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 sparrow | compound |
| 41 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 include | obl |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 iagoensis | punct |
| 43 | Passer | Passer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 iagoensis | compound |
| 44 | iagoensis | iagoensis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sparrow | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 iagoensis | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Endemic birds | Alexander's swift and Bourne's heron and the Raso lark and the Verde warbler | the Iago sparrow obl | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swift=Theme |
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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