Funafuti, sentence 14
From Wikipedia, «Funafuti», 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.
The atoll consists of a narrow sweep of land between 20 and 400 m wide, encircling a large lagoon (Te Namo) 18 km long and 14 km wide.
Who acts: atoll · What happens: consist, encircle · To what, where: large lagoon
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Funafuti». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (atoll), 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 atoll | det |
| 2 | atoll | atoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consists | nsubj |
| 3 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sweep | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sweep | det |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sweep | amod |
| 7 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consists | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweep | nmod |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 20 | case |
| 11 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 m | nummod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 400 | cc |
| 13 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 20 | conj |
| 14 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sweep | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 encircling | punct |
| 17 | encircling | encircle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 consists | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lagoon | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lagoon | amod |
| 20 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 encircling | obj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Te | punct |
| 22 | Te | Te | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lagoon | appos |
| 23 | Namo | Namo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Te | flat |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Te | punct |
| 25 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 km | nummod |
| 26 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 long | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 encircling | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wide | cc |
| 29 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 km | nummod |
| 30 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 long | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | the atoll | of a narrow sweep of land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | encircle | gerund | the atoll not said here | a large lagoon | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lagoon=Co-Theme |
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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