Comoros, sentence 290

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.

The ada is often criticized because of its great expense, but at the same time it is a source of social cohesion and the main reason why migrants in France and elsewhere continue to send money home.

Who acts: ada, migrants · What happens: criticize, be, continue, send · To what, where: ada, source, money

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 (ada, migrants), 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 ada	det
2	ada	ada	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 criticized	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 criticized	aux:pass
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 criticized	advmod
5	criticized	criticize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 expense	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 expense	nmod:poss
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 expense	amod
10	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 criticized	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 time	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 time	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 criticized	obl:unmarked
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 source	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 source	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 source	det
20	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 cohesion	case
22	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cohesion	amod
23	cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 source	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reason	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reason	det
26	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reason	amod
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	conj
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 continue	advmod
29	migrants	migrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 continue	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 France	case
31	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 migrants	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 elsewhere	cc
33	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	34 continue	advmod
34	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 reason	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 send	mark
36	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 continue	xcomp
37	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 send	obj
38	home	home	ADV	_	36 send	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 criticized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	criticize	present · passive		the ada	time	because ada's great expense; often property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	present	ada	a source		of social cohesion	tree rules
3	continue	infinitive	migrants in France			elsewhere property	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	send	to-infinitive	migrants in France not said here	money		home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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Pragmatics

Comoros, sentence 290