Fiji, sentence 25
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The name of Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, served as the origin of the name "Fiji", though the common English pronunciation is based on that of Fiji's island neighbours in Tonga.
What happens: serve, base, name · To what, where: common English pronunciation, that, name, main island
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Fiji». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 4 | Fiji | Fiji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 island | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fiji | case |
| 6 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 island | amod |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Viti | punct |
| 9 | Viti | Viti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 island | appos |
| 10 | Levu | Levu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Viti | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 served | punct |
| 12 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 name | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 origin | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 origin | det |
| 15 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 served | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 name | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 origin | nmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fiji | punct |
| 20 | Fiji | Fiji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 name | appos |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fiji | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 based | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 29 based | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pronunciation | det |
| 25 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pronunciation | amod |
| 26 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 pronunciation | compound |
| 27 | pronunciation | pronunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 based | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 based | aux:pass |
| 29 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 served | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 that | case |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 based | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 neighbours | case |
| 33 | Fiji | Fiji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Fiji | case |
| 35 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 neighbours | compound |
| 36 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 that | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Tonga | case |
| 38 | Tonga | Tonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 neighbours | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | participle | as the origin of the name | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as origin=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | base | present · passive | the common English pronunciation | that of Fiji's island neighbours in Tonga | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on that=Source | ||||
| 4 | name | Fiji's main island | nom name «communication 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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