Eswatini, sentence 120
From Wikipedia, «Eswatini», 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.
In June 2021, pro-democracy protests broke out across the country, sparking riots, looting, and street skirmishes with police and soldiers.
Who acts: pro-democracy protests · What happens: break out, spark, loot · To what, where: street skirmishes, country, riots
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Eswatini». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pro-democracy protests), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 3 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 June | punct |
| 5 | pro-democracy | pro-democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 protests | compound |
| 6 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 broke | compound:prt |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sparking | punct |
| 13 | sparking | spark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 broke | advcl |
| 14 | riots | riot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sparking | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looting | punct |
| 16 | looting | loot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sparking | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 skirmishes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 skirmishes | cc |
| 19 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skirmishes | compound |
| 20 | skirmishes | skirmish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broke | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 police | case |
| 22 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 skirmishes | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 soldiers | cc |
| 24 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 police | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | pro-democracy protests | street skirmishes with police and soldiers | the country | june | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | spark | gerund | pro-democracy protests not said here | riots | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition riot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | loot | gerund | pro-democracy protests not said here | tree rules |
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, «Eswatini», 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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