Comoros, sentence 36
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.
Nonetheless, after a stay in Mecca, he returned to Ngazidja, where he built a mosque in his home town of Ntsaweni, and led the gradual conversion of the islanders to Islam.
Who acts: Mecca · What happens: return, build, lead, convert · To what, where: Ngazidja, mosque, home town, gradual conversion, Islam, islanders
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 (Mecca), 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 | Nonetheless | nonetheless | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nonetheless | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 stay | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stay | det |
| 5 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Mecca | case |
| 7 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Ngazidja | case |
| 12 | Ngazidja | Ngazidja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 built | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 built | nsubj |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mosque | det |
| 18 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 town | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 town | compound |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Ntsaweni | case |
| 24 | Ntsaweni | Ntsaweni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 town | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 led | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 led | cc |
| 27 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 conversion | det |
| 29 | gradual | gradual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 conversion | amod |
| 30 | conversion | conversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 led | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 islanders | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 islanders | det |
| 33 | islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 conversion | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Islam | case |
| 35 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 led | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Mecca | Ngazidja | after a stay in Mecca | nonetheless property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ngazidja=Result | ||
| 2 | build | past | Mecca | a mosque | Mecca's home town of Ntsaweni | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mosque=Product | |||
| 3 | lead | past | Mecca not said here | the gradual conversion of the islanders | Islam | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conversion=Theme to islam=Destination | |||
| 4 | convert | the islanders | nom conversion «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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