Funafuti, sentence 35
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.
At the time the cyclone struck, he was the lone inhabitant of Fongafale, Funafuti's largest islet, because Tema, a Samoan missionary, had taken everyone else to Funafala to work on erecting a church.
Who acts: cyclone · What happens: strike, be, take, work, erect · To what, where: time, lone inhabitant, Tema, Funafala, church
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 (cyclone), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inhabitant | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cyclone | det |
| 5 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 inhabitant | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 inhabitant | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inhabitant | det |
| 11 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 inhabitant | amod |
| 12 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Fongafale | case |
| 14 | Fongafale | Fongafale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 inhabitant | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 islet | punct |
| 16 | Funafuti | Funafuti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 islet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Funafuti | case |
| 18 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 islet | amod |
| 19 | islet | islet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Fongafale | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 taken | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 taken | mark |
| 22 | Tema | Tema | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 missionary | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 missionary | det |
| 25 | Samoan | samoan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 missionary | amod |
| 26 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Tema | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Tema | punct |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 inhabitant | parataxis |
| 30 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 taken | obj |
| 31 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 everyone | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Funafala | case |
| 33 | Funafala | Funafala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 work | mark |
| 35 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 taken | advcl |
| 36 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 37 erecting | mark |
| 37 | erecting | erect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 work | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 church | det |
| 39 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 erecting | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inhabitant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the cyclone | the time not said here | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Cyclone | the lone inhabitant | time | of Fongafale | tree rules | ||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | Tema | Funafala | everyone obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme everyone=Destination | |||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | erect | gerund | a church | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Product |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Funafuti», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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