Cape Verde, sentence 22
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 archipelago was formed approximately 40–50 million years ago during the Eocene epoch.
What happens: form · To what, where: archipelago
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: 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 | 2 archipelago | det |
| 2 | archipelago | archipelago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 formed | aux:pass |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 6 40 | advmod |
| 6 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 million | compound |
| 7 | – | – | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 8 50 | case |
| 8 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 40 | nmod |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 formed | advmod |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 epoch | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 epoch | det |
| 14 | Eocene | Eocene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 epoch | compound |
| 15 | epoch | epoch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · passive | the archipelago | during the Eocene epoch | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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