Funafuti, sentence 51
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 about 4 p.m. on Saturday the 21st, sea water bubbled through the coral on the airfield and rose to a height of about 5 ft. Cyclone Bebe continued to ravage the area through Sunday 22 October.
Who acts: ft. · What happens: bubble, rise, continue, ravage · To what, where: 21st, 4 p.m., height, area
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 (ft.), 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 | _ | 4 p.m. | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 4 | advmod |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 p.m. | nummod |
| 4 | p.m. | p.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bubbled | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Saturday | case |
| 6 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 p.m. | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 21st | det |
| 8 | 21st | 21st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 12 bubbled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 water | compound |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 21st | conj |
| 12 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 coral | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coral | det |
| 15 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bubbled | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 airfield | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 airfield | det |
| 18 | airfield | airfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bubbled | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rose | cc |
| 20 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bubbled | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 height | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 height | det |
| 23 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | obl |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 continued | mark |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 5 | advmod |
| 26 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 continued | advcl |
| 27 | ft. | Ft. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 continued | nsubj |
| 28 | Cyclone | Cyclone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ft. | flat |
| 29 | Bebe | Bebe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Cyclone | flat |
| 30 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 height | acl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 ravage | mark |
| 32 | ravage | ravage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 continued | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 area | det |
| 34 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ravage | obj |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 Sunday | case |
| 36 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 ravage | obl |
| 37 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Sunday | appos |
| 38 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 22 | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bubbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bubble | participle · passive | the 21st and sea water | 4 p.m. on Saturday | through the coral; on the airfield | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | rise | past | a height | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to height=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | ft. | a height not said here | 5 advcl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ravage | to-infinitive | ft. not said here | the area | sunday | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=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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