Cook Islands, sentence 69
From Wikipedia, «Cook Islands», 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.
There are 15 major islands spread over 2200000 km2 of ocean, divided into two distinct groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls.
Who acts: 15 major islands · What happens: be, spread, divide · To what, where: 2200000, two distinct groups
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cook Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (15 major islands), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | advcl |
| 3 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 islands | nummod |
| 4 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 islands | amod |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | nsubj |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 2200000 | case |
| 8 | 2200000 | 2200000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 spread | obl |
| 9 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 2200000 | flat |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ocean | case |
| 11 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 km2 | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 divided | punct |
| 13 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 spread | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 groups | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 groups | nummod |
| 16 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 groups | amod |
| 17 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 divided | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Islands | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Islands | det |
| 20 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 22 Islands | compound |
| 21 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Islands | compound |
| 22 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 groups | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Islands | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Islands | det |
| 25 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Islands | amod |
| 26 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Islands | compound |
| 27 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 Islands | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 atolls | case |
| 29 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 atolls | amod |
| 30 | atolls | atoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Islands | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | 15 major islands not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | 15 major islands | 2200000 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over 2200000=Location | ||||
| 3 | divide | participle | two distinct groups the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands of coral atolls | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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