Cape Verde, sentence 36
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.
Because of its excellent harbour Mindelo, located on the island of São Vicente, the country became an important commercial centre.
Who acts: excellent harbour · What happens: locate, become · To what, where: excellent harbour, island, important commercial centre
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 (excellent harbour), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 harbour | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 harbour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 harbour | amod |
| 5 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | nsubj |
| 6 | Mindelo | Mindelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 harbour | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 located | punct |
| 8 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 harbour | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 located | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 São | case |
| 13 | São | São | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 island | nmod |
| 14 | Vicente | Vicente | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 São | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 country | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 São | appos |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 centre | det |
| 20 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 centre | amod |
| 21 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 centre | amod |
| 22 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | participle | position's excellent harbour not said here | the island of São | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | position's excellent harbour | a important commercial centre | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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