Chad, sentence 316
From Wikipedia, «Chad», 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.
Later, more renowned groups such as African Melody and International Challal attempted to mix modernity and tradition.
Who acts: renowned groups · What happens: attempt, mix · To what, where: modernity
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chad». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (renowned groups), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 attempted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 groups | punct |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 renowned | advmod |
| 4 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 groups | amod |
| 5 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attempted | nsubj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 Melody | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Melody | amod |
| 9 | Melody | Melody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 groups | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 International | cc |
| 11 | International | International | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Melody | conj |
| 12 | Challal | Challal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 International | flat |
| 13 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 mix | mark |
| 15 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 attempted | xcomp |
| 16 | modernity | modernity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mix | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tradition | cc |
| 18 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 modernity | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | renowned groups such African Melody and International | late property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mix not said to happen | to-infinitive | renowned groups such African Melody and International not said here | modernity and tradition | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent modernity=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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