Comoros, sentence 180
From Wikipedia, «Comoros», 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.
More recently, the Assembly has maintained this item on its agenda but deferred it from year to year without taking action.
Who acts: Assembly · What happens: maintain, defer, take · To what, where: item, agenda, action
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Comoros». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 recently | advmod |
| 2 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 7 maintained | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 recently | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Assembly | det |
| 5 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 maintained | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 maintained | aux |
| 7 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 item | det |
| 9 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maintained | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 agenda | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 agenda | nmod:poss |
| 12 | agenda | agenda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maintained | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 deferred | cc |
| 14 | deferred | defer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 maintained | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deferred | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deferred | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deferred | obl |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 taking | mark |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 deferred | advcl |
| 22 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taking | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | present · perfect | the Assembly | this item | item's agenda | recently property | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent item=Theme | ||
| 2 | defer | past | the Assembly not said here | item | year | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent it=Source | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | the Assembly not said here | action | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Comoros», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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