Cape Verde, sentence 59
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.
The prime minister is nominated by the National Assembly and appointed by the president.
Who acts: National Assembly · What happens: nominate, appoint · To what, where: prime minister
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 (National Assembly), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nominated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nominated | aux:pass |
| 5 | nominated | nominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Assembly | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Assembly | det |
| 8 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Assembly | amod |
| 9 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nominated | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 appointed | cc |
| 11 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nominated | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 president | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 president | det |
| 14 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appointed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nominated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nominate | present · passive | the National Assembly | the prime minister | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appoint | participle | the National Assembly not said here | by the president | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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