Cape Verde, sentence 15
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.
The official language is Portuguese, while the recognized national language is Cape Verdean Creole (Crioulo), which is spoken by the vast majority of the population.
Who acts: official language, recognized national language, vast majority · What happens: be, recognize, speak · To what, where: Verdean Creole · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (official language, recognized national language, vast majority), 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 | 3 language | det |
| 2 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 language | amod |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Portuguese | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Portuguese | cop |
| 5 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Creole | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 Creole | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 language | det |
| 9 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 language | amod |
| 10 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 language | amod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Creole | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Creole | cop |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Verdean | flat |
| 14 | Verdean | Verdean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Creole | compound |
| 15 | Creole | Creole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Portuguese | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Crioulo | punct |
| 17 | Crioulo | Crioulo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Creole | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Crioulo | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoken | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoken | aux:pass |
| 22 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Creole | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 majority | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 majority | det |
| 25 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 majority | amod |
| 26 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoken | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 population | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 population | det |
| 29 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 majority | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Portuguese | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the official language | portuguese property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recognize | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the recognized national language | Verdean Creole | Crioulo appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | present · passive | the vast majority of the population | Verdean Creole | 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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