Dominica, sentence 29
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.
However, this may be a partial misconception as ancestral Kalinago narratives mention the two groups coexisting and intermarrying.
Who acts: this, ancestral Kalinago narratives, two groups · What happens: be, mention, coexist, intermarry · To what, where: partial misconception, two groups
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 (this, ancestral Kalinago narratives, two groups), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 misconception | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 misconception | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 misconception | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 misconception | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 misconception | det |
| 7 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 misconception | amod |
| 8 | misconception | misconception | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 mention | mark |
| 10 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 narratives | amod |
| 11 | Kalinago | Kalinago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 narratives | compound |
| 12 | narratives | narrative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mention | nsubj |
| 13 | mention | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 misconception | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 groups | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 groups | nummod |
| 16 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mention | obj |
| 17 | coexisting | coexist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 groups | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 intermarrying | cc |
| 19 | intermarrying | intermarry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 coexisting | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 misconception | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | this | a partial misconception | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present | ancestral Kalinago narratives | the two groups | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent group=Topic | ||||
| 3 | coexist | gerund | the two groups not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | intermarry | gerund | the two groups not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Dominica», 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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