Cape Verde, sentence 244
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.
Almost twice as many Cape Verdeans live abroad (nearly one million) as in the country itself.
Who acts: many Cape Verdeans · What happens: live · To what, where: one million
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 (many Cape Verdeans), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 twice | advmod |
| 2 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 live | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Verdeans | amod |
| 5 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Verdeans | compound |
| 6 | Verdeans | verdean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 7 live | advmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 million | punct |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 million | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 million | compound |
| 12 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 live | obl |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 million | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 country | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | many Cape Verdeans | one million | as the country population; abroad, twice property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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