Funafuti, sentence 52
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 Ellice Islands Colony's ship Moanaraoi, which was in the lagoon, survived.
Who acts: Moanaraoi, Ellice Islands · What happens: be, survive · To what, where: 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 (Moanaraoi, Ellice Islands), 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 | 3 Islands | det |
| 2 | Ellice | Ellice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Islands | compound |
| 3 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 survived | nsubj |
| 4 | Colony | Colony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ship | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Colony | case |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Moanaraoi | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Moanaraoi | Moanaraoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Islands | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lagoon | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lagoon | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lagoon | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lagoon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lagoon | det |
| 13 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Moanaraoi | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Islands | punct |
| 15 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 survived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Moanaraoi Colony's ship | the lagoon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | survive | past | the Ellice Islands Moanaraoi Colony's ship | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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