Eswatini, sentence 4
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.
However, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
Who acts: climate, country · What happens: be, range, acclimate · To what, where: cool highveld
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 (climate, country), 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 diverse | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 climate | nmod:poss |
| 4 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 diverse | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 topography | cc |
| 6 | topography | topography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climate | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 diverse | cop |
| 8 | diverse | diverse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ranging | punct |
| 10 | ranging | range | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 diverse | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 highveld | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 highveld | det |
| 13 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 highveld | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mountainous | cc |
| 15 | mountainous | mountainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cool | conj |
| 16 | highveld | highveld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ranging | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 lowveld | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lowveld | det |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lowveld | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dry | cc |
| 21 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hot | conj |
| 22 | lowveld | lowveld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ranging | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 diverse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | country's climate and topography | diverse, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | range | gerund | country's climate and topography not said here | a cool highveld | to a hot lowveld | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from highveld=Location | |||
| 3 | acclimate | country | nom climate «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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