Eswatini, sentence 84
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.
His stature grew with time, and the Swazi royal leadership was successful in resisting the weakening power of the British administration and the possibility of the incorporation of Swaziland into the Union of South Africa.
Who acts: stature, Swazi royal leadership · What happens: grow, be, resist, weaken, incorporate · To what, where: weakening power, Union, Swaziland
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 (stature, Swazi royal leadership), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stature | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 successful | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 successful | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leadership | det |
| 9 | Swazi | Swazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 leadership | compound |
| 10 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leadership | amod |
| 11 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 successful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 successful | cop |
| 13 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | conj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 resisting | mark |
| 15 | resisting | resist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 successful | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 power | det |
| 17 | weakening | weaken | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 power | amod |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resisting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 administration | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 administration | det |
| 21 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 administration | amod |
| 22 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 power | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 possibility | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 possibility | det |
| 25 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 administration | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 incorporation | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 incorporation | det |
| 28 | incorporation | incorporation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 possibility | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Swaziland | case |
| 30 | Swaziland | Swaziland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 incorporation | nmod |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 Union | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Union | det |
| 33 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 resisting | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Africa | case |
| 35 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Africa | compound |
| 36 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Union | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Sobhuza's stature | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Swazi royal leadership | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resist | gerund | the Swazi royal leadership not said here | the weakening power of the British administration and the possibility of the incorporation of Swaziland | the Union of South Africa | tree rules | |||
| 4 | weaken | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | incorporate | Swaziland | nom incorporation «act transitive»: of=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.
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