Chad, sentence 96
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.
Major rivers—the Chari, Logone and their tributaries—flow through the southern savannas from the southeast into Lake Chad.
Who acts: Major rivers · What happens: flow · To what, where: southern savannas
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 (Major rivers), 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 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rivers | amod |
| 2 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flow | nsubj |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Chari | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Chari | det |
| 5 | Chari | Chari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rivers | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Logone | punct |
| 7 | Logone | Logone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chari | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tributaries | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tributaries | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tributaries | tributary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Chari | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 rivers | punct |
| 12 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 savannas | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 savannas | det |
| 15 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 savannas | amod |
| 16 | savannas | savanna | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flow | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 southeast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 southeast | det |
| 19 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flow | obl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 Chad | case |
| 21 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Chad | compound |
| 22 | Chad | Chad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flow | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | infinitive | Major rivers | the southern savannas | from the southeast; into Lake Chad | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through savanna=Location |
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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