Cape Verde, sentence 233
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.
Kriolu has been gaining prestige since the nation's independence from Portugal.
Who acts: Kriolu · What happens: gain · To what, where: prestige
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 (Kriolu), 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 | Kriolu | Kriolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gaining | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gaining | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gaining | aux |
| 4 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | prestige | prestige | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaining | obj |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 independence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nation | det |
| 8 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 independence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 nation | case |
| 10 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaining | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Portugal | case |
| 12 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 independence | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gaining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | present · perfect · progressive | Kriolu | prestige | since the nation's independence from Portugal | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prestige=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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