Comoros, sentence 250
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.
Although the infant mortality rate in the Comoros declined sharply from 152 to 47 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1970 and 2020, it remains high compared to rates in developed countries.
Who acts: infant mortality rate, rate · What happens: decline, remain, compare, develop · To what, where: 152 deaths
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 (infant mortality rate, rate), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 9 declined | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rate | det |
| 3 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rate | amod |
| 4 | mortality | mortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rate | compound |
| 5 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declined | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Comoros | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Comoros | det |
| 8 | Comoros | Comoros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rate | nmod |
| 9 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 9 declined | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 deaths | case |
| 12 | 152 | 152 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 deaths | nummod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 47 | case |
| 14 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 152 | nmod |
| 15 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 declined | obl |
| 16 | per | per | ADV | _ | 17 1,000 | advmod |
| 17 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 births | nummod |
| 18 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 births | amod |
| 19 | births | birth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deaths | nmod |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 1970 | case |
| 21 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 births | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 2020 | cc |
| 23 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 1970 | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 remains | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 remains | nsubj |
| 26 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 declined | conj |
| 27 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 compared | advmod |
| 28 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 remains | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 rates | case |
| 30 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 compared | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 countries | case |
| 32 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 countries | amod |
| 33 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rates | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 declined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decline | past | the infant mortality rate in the Comoros | 152 deaths 1,000 live births between 1970 | sharply property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | remain | present | rate | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | compare | participle | rate not said here | to rates in developed countries; high property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | develop | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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