Cape Verde, sentence 327

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.

Cesária Évora was the best-known Cape Verdean singer in the world, known as the "barefoot diva", because she liked to perform barefooted on stage.

Who acts: Cesária · What happens: know, be, like, perform, barefoot · To what, where: known Cape singer, world, stage

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 (Cesária), 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	Cesária	Cesária	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 singer	nsubj
2	Évora	Évora	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cesária	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 singer	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 singer	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 known	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 singer	amod
8	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 singer	compound
9	Verdean	Verdean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cape	flat
10	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singer	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 known	punct
15	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 singer	parataxis
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 diva	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 diva	det
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 diva	punct
19	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 diva	compound
20	diva	diva	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 known	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 diva	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 liked	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 liked	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 liked	nsubj
25	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 known	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 perform	mark
27	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 liked	xcomp
28	barefooted	barefoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 perform	xcomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 stage	case
30	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 barefooted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 singer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Cesária	the known Cape singer	the world		tree rules
3	know	participle				as the barefoot diva	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as diva=Attribute
4	like	past	Cesária				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	perform not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cesária not said here				tree rules
6	barefoot	participle	Cesária not said here		stage		tree rules

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 327