Comoros, sentence 223
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.
In 2001, 34% of the population was considered urban, but the urban population has since grown; in recent years rural population growth has been negative, while overall population growth is still relatively high.
Who acts: rural population growth, overall population growth · What happens: consider, grow, be · To what, where: 2001, urban population
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 (rural population growth, overall population growth), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2001 | case |
| 2 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 considered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2001 | punct |
| 4 | 34 | 34 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 % | nummod |
| 5 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 10 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 population | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 population | det |
| 8 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 % | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 considered | aux:pass |
| 10 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 considered | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grown | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 grown | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 population | det |
| 15 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 population | amod |
| 16 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 grown | aux |
| 18 | since | since | ADV | _ | 19 grown | advmod |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 considered | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 negative | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 years | amod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 negative | obl |
| 24 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 growth | amod |
| 25 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 growth | compound |
| 26 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 negative | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 negative | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 negative | cop |
| 29 | negative | negative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 considered | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 high | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 high | mark |
| 32 | overall | overall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 growth | amod |
| 33 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 growth | compound |
| 34 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 high | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 high | cop |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 38 high | advmod |
| 37 | relatively | relatively | ADV | _ | 38 high | advmod |
| 38 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 negative | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · passive | 2001 | urban property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | grow | present · perfect · passive | the urban population | since property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | rural population growth | year | negative property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | overall population growth | still | high, relatively property | 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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