Cape Verde, sentence 195

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.

Despite having few natural resources and being semi-desert, the country has the highest living standards in the region and has attracted thousands of immigrants of different nationalities.

Who acts: country · What happens: have, be, attract · To what, where: few natural resources, semi-desert, highest living standards, region, thousands

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 (country), 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	Despite	despite	ADP	_	2 having	mark
2	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 country	advcl
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resources	amod
4	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resources	amod
5	resources	resource	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 having	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 semi-desert	cc
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 semi-desert	cop
8	semi-desert	semi-desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 having	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 having	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 standards	det
14	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 standards	amod
15	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 standards	amod
16	standards	standard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 region	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 region	det
19	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standards	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 attracted	cc
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 attracted	aux
22	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 has	conj
23	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 attracted	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 immigrants	case
25	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 thousands	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 nationalities	case
27	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nationalities	amod
28	nationalities	nationality	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 immigrants	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	gerund	the country not said here	few natural resources		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient
2	is a	gerund	the country not said here	semi-desert		tree rules
3	have	present	the country	the highest living standards	the region	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Patient
4	attract	present · perfect	the country not said here	thousands of immigrants of different nationalities		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Cape Verde», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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🌲 Cape Verde, sentence 195

The tree

Pragmatics

Cape Verde, sentence 195