Cape Verde, sentence 276
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.
Although the educational system is similar to the Portuguese system, over the years the local universities have been increasingly adopting the American educational system; for instance, all ten existing universities offer four-year bachelor's degree programmes as opposed to five-year bachelor's degree programmes that existed before 2010.
Who acts: educational system, local universities, ten existing universities, degree programmes, year bachelor · What happens: be, adopt, exist, offer, oppose, programme · To what, where: American educational system, degree programmes, 2010
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 (educational system, local universities, ten existing universities, degree programmes), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 6 similar | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 system | det |
| 3 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 system | amod |
| 4 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 similar | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 similar | cop |
| 6 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 system | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 system | det |
| 9 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 system | compound |
| 10 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 similar | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 similar | punct |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 years | det |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 similar | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 universities | det |
| 16 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 universities | amod |
| 17 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 adopting | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 adopting | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 adopting | aux |
| 20 | increasingly | increasingly | ADV | _ | 21 adopting | advmod |
| 21 | adopting | adopt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 years | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 system | det |
| 23 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 system | amod |
| 24 | educational | educational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 system | amod |
| 25 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adopting | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 instance | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 instance | case |
| 28 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 similar | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 offer | punct |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 universities | det |
| 31 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 universities | nummod |
| 32 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 universities | amod |
| 33 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 offer | nsubj |
| 34 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 similar | parataxis |
| 35 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 year | nummod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 four | punct |
| 37 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bachelor | compound |
| 38 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 programmes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 bachelor | case |
| 40 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 programmes | compound |
| 41 | programmes | programme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 offer | obj |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 51 programmes | case |
| 43 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 as | fixed |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 as | fixed |
| 45 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 year | nummod |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 five | punct |
| 47 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bachelor | compound |
| 48 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 programmes | nmod:poss |
| 49 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 48 bachelor | case |
| 50 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 programmes | compound |
| 51 | programmes | programme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 offer | obl |
| 52 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 existed | nsubj |
| 53 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 programmes | acl:relcl |
| 54 | before | before | ADP | _ | 55 2010 | case |
| 55 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 53 existed | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 similar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the educational system | year | to the Portuguese system; for instance; similar property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | adopt | present · perfect · progressive | the local universities | the American educational system | increasingly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Theme | |||
| 3 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | offer | present | all ten existing universities | year bachelor's degree programmes | as year bachelor's degree programmes | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent programme=Pivot as programme=Attribute | |||
| 5 | oppose | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | exist | past | year bachelor's degree programmes | 2010 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before 2010=Location | ||||
| 7 | programme | year bachelor | nom programme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | programme | year bachelor | nom programme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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