Cape Verde, sentence 366
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.
These act as terminals for the inter-island ferry services, which carry both freight and passengers.
Who acts: These, island ferry services · What happens: act, carry · To what, where: freight
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 (These, island ferry services), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 act | nsubj |
| 2 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 terminals | case |
| 4 | terminals | terminal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 act | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 services | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 services | det |
| 7 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 island | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 inter | punct |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 services | compound |
| 10 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 services | compound |
| 11 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 act | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 services | acl:relcl |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 freight | det |
| 16 | freight | freight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 passengers | cc |
| 18 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 freight | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present | These | as terminals; for the island ferry services | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as terminal=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | the island ferry services | both freight and passengers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freight=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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