Funafuti, sentence 31
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.
Alfred Restieaux, a native of England, lived and worked as a trader on Funafuti from July 1881 until about 1888 or 1889.
Who acts: Alfred · What happens: live, work
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 (Alfred), 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 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | Restieaux | Restieaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alfred | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 native | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 native | det |
| 5 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alfred | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 England | case |
| 7 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 native | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alfred | punct |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 worked | cc |
| 11 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lived | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 trader | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trader | det |
| 14 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worked | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Funafuti | case |
| 16 | Funafuti | Funafuti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 trader | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 July | case |
| 18 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 worked | obl |
| 19 | 1881 | 1881 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 July | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | until | until | ADP | _ | 22 1888 | case |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 1888 | advmod |
| 22 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 worked | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 1889 | cc |
| 24 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 1888 | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Alfred | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | past | Alfred not said here | until 1888; july | as a trader on Funafuti | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as trader=Attribute |
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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