Chile, sentence 224
From Wikipedia, «Chile», 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 Andes, as he had done previously Cordillera de la Costa, begins to break in the ocean causing a myriad of islands and islets and disappear into it, sinking and reappearing in the Southern Antilles arc and then the Antarctic Peninsula, where it is called Antartandes, in the Chilean Antarctic Territory, lying between the meridians 53°W and 90°W.
Who acts: east · What happens: do, begin, break, cause, disappear, sink · To what, where: Cordillera, Andes, ocean, myriad, Southern Antilles arc, 53 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Chile». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (east), 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 | 2 Andes | det |
| 2 | Andes | Ande | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 begins | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Andes | acl |
| 8 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 9 Cordillera | advmod |
| 9 | Cordillera | Cordillera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 done | obl |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Cordillera | flat:foreign |
| 11 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Cordillera | appos |
| 12 | Costa | Costa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 la | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begins | punct |
| 14 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 break | mark |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begins | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ocean | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ocean | det |
| 19 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obl |
| 20 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 break | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 myriad | det |
| 22 | myriad | myriad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 causing | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 islands | case |
| 24 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 myriad | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 islets | cc |
| 26 | islets | islet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 islands | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 disappear | cc |
| 28 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 break | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 disappear | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sinking | punct |
| 32 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 disappear | advcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 reappearing | cc |
| 34 | reappearing | reappear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 sinking | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 arc | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 arc | det |
| 37 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 arc | amod |
| 38 | Antilles | Antilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 arc | compound |
| 39 | arc | arc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reappearing | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Peninsula | cc |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 Peninsula | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Peninsula | det |
| 43 | Antarctic | Antarctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Peninsula | compound |
| 44 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sinking | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 called | punct |
| 46 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 called | advmod |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 called | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 called | aux:pass |
| 49 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 Peninsula | acl:relcl |
| 50 | Antartandes | Antartandes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 called | xcomp |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Territory | punct |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 Territory | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 Territory | det |
| 54 | Chilean | chilean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 Territory | amod |
| 55 | Antarctic | Antarctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Territory | compound |
| 56 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 called | xcomp |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 lying | punct |
| 58 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 sinking | conj |
| 59 | between | between | ADP | _ | 61 meridians | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 meridians | det |
| 61 | meridians | meridian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 lying | obl |
| 62 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 58 lying | obj |
| 63 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 64 W | case |
| 64 | W | W | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 53 | nmod |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 90 | cc |
| 66 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 62 53 | conj |
| 67 | ° | ° | SYM | _ | 68 W. | case |
| 68 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 90 | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | east | Cordillera | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ande=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | begin | present | the Andes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | the ocean | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | |||||
| 4 | cause | gerund | a myriad of islands and islets | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition myriad=Patient | |||||
| 5 | disappear | present | myriad | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sink | gerund | the Antarctic Peninsula conj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | reappear | gerund | the Southern Antilles arc | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arc=Location | |||||
| 8 | call | present · passive | myriad | Antartandes xcomp; the Chilean Antarctic Territory xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | lie | gerund | 53 | between the meridians; ° W | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 53=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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