Chad, sentence 87
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.
It covers an area of 1284000 km2, lying between latitudes 7° and 24°N, and 13° and 24°E, and is the twentieth-largest country in the world.
Who acts: country · What happens: cover, lie, be · To what, where: area, 7, latitudes, largest country, world
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 (country), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 covers | nsubj |
| 2 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 area | det |
| 4 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covers | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1284000 | case |
| 6 | 1284000 | 1284000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 area | nmod |
| 7 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 1284000 | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 covers | advcl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 latitudes | case |
| 11 | latitudes | latitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lying | obl |
| 12 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 12 7 | flat |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 24 | cc |
| 15 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 7 | conj |
| 16 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 17 N | case |
| 17 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 7 | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 13 | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 13 | cc |
| 20 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 covers | parataxis |
| 21 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 20 13 | flat |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 24 | cc |
| 23 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 13 | conj |
| 24 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 25 E | case |
| 25 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 13 | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 country | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 country | cc |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 country | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 30 | twentieth | twentieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 largest | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 largest | punct |
| 32 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 country | amod |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covers | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 world | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 country | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | country | a area of 1284000 | 13 ° E parataxis | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme area=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | country not said here | 7 ° N | latitudes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between latitude=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the largest country | the world | 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.
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