Cotonou, sentence 16
From Wikipedia, «Cotonou», 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 city is cut in two by a canal, the lagoon of Cotonou, dug by the French in 1855.
Who acts: canal · What happens: cut, dig · To what, where: city, two, 1855
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cotonou». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (canal), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 two | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cut | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 canal | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 canal | det |
| 9 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lagoon | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lagoon | det |
| 12 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 canal | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Cotonou | case |
| 14 | Cotonou | Cotonou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lagoon | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dug | punct |
| 16 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cut | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 French | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 French | det |
| 19 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dug | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1855 | case |
| 21 | 1855 | 1855 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 dug | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present · passive | a canal | the city | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | dig | participle | a canal not said here | 1855 | by the French | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by french=Location |
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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