Comoros, sentence 72
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The first, held on all the islands on 22 December 1974, won 63.8% support for maintaining ties with France on Mayotte; the second, held in February 1976, confirmed that vote with an overwhelming 99.4%, while the third, in April 1976, confirmed that the people of Mayotte wished to remain a French territory.
Who acts: first, people · What happens: hold, win, maintain, confirm, wish, remain · To what, where: islands, % support, ties, Mayotte, vote, French territory
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 (first, people), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 confirmed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 first | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 islands | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 islands | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 islands | det |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 held | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 22 | case |
| 10 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 islands | nmod |
| 11 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 22 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 22 | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 won | punct |
| 14 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 first | parataxis |
| 15 | 63.8 | 63.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 % | nummod |
| 16 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 17 support | compound |
| 17 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 won | obj |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 maintaining | mark |
| 19 | maintaining | maintain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 won | advcl |
| 20 | ties | tie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 maintaining | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 France | case |
| 22 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 maintaining | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 Mayotte | case |
| 24 | Mayotte | Mayotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 maintaining | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 second | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 second | det |
| 27 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 first | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 held | punct |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 second | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 February | case |
| 31 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 held | obl |
| 32 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 confirmed | punct |
| 34 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 vote | det |
| 36 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 confirmed | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 % | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 % | det |
| 39 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 % | amod |
| 40 | 99.4 | 99.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 % | nummod |
| 41 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 34 confirmed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 third | punct |
| 43 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 45 third | mark |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 third | det |
| 45 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 confirmed | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 April | punct |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 April | case |
| 48 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 confirmed | obl |
| 49 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 April | nummod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 confirmed | punct |
| 51 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 confirmed | conj |
| 52 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 wished | mark |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 people | det |
| 54 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 wished | nsubj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Mayotte | case |
| 56 | Mayotte | Mayotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 people | nmod |
| 57 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 confirmed | ccomp |
| 58 | to | to | PART | _ | 59 remain | mark |
| 59 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 wished | xcomp |
| 60 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 territory | det |
| 61 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 territory | amod |
| 62 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 remain | xcomp |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | all islands on 22 December | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | |||||
| 2 | win | past | % support | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | maintain | gerund | ties | Mayotte | with France | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tie=Theme | |||
| 4 | hold | participle | the first not said here | february | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | confirm | past | the first | that vote | april | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot vote=Topic | |||
| 6 | confirm | past | the first not said here | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | wish | past | the people of Mayotte | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people of Mayotte not said here | a French territory | vn exist-47.1 «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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