Dominica, sentence 134
From Wikipedia, «Dominica», 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 UK, France and the Netherlands set up shipping and air lifts to take aid to the island, the scale of destruction having left most people homeless.
Who acts: UK, air, destruction · What happens: set up, lift, take, have, leave · To what, where: shipping, aid, island, most people
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Dominica». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UK, air, destruction), 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 UK | det |
| 2 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 France | punct |
| 4 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 UK | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Netherlands | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Netherlands | det |
| 7 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 UK | conj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lifts | cc |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifts | nsubj |
| 13 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lifts | xcomp |
| 16 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scale | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 scale | det |
| 22 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 destruction | case |
| 24 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scale | nmod |
| 25 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 destruction | acl |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 having | xcomp |
| 27 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 left | obj |
| 29 | homeless | homeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 left | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past | the UK and France and the Netherlands | shipping | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient shipping=Result | ||||
| 2 | lift | present | air | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | air not said here | aid | the island | the scale of destruction obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent aid=Theme to island=Destination | ||
| 4 | have | gerund | destruction not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave | participle | destruction not said here | most people | homeless property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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.
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