Funafuti, sentence 81
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.
In response, the government has initiated several adaptation projects, notably the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP), which aims to protect vulnerable shorelines and reclaim land to mitigate the effects of sea-level rise.
Who acts: government, Coastal Adaptation Project · What happens: initiate, aim, protect, mitigate, effect · To what, where: several adaptation projects, response, vulnerable shorelines, effects, level rise
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 (government, Coastal Adaptation Project), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 response | case |
| 2 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 initiated | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 response | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 government | det |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 initiated | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 initiated | aux |
| 7 | initiated | initiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 projects | amod |
| 9 | adaptation | adaptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 projects | compound |
| 10 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 initiated | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Project | punct |
| 12 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 17 Project | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Project | det |
| 14 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Coastal | compound |
| 15 | Coastal | Coastal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Project | compound |
| 16 | Adaptation | Adaptation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Project | compound |
| 17 | Project | Project | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 projects | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 TCAP | punct |
| 19 | TCAP | TCAP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Project | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 TCAP | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 aims | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 aims | nsubj |
| 23 | aims | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Project | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 protect | mark |
| 25 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 aims | xcomp |
| 26 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shorelines | amod |
| 27 | shorelines | shoreline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 protect | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 land | cc |
| 29 | reclaim | reclaim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 land | compound |
| 30 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shorelines | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 mitigate | mark |
| 32 | mitigate | mitigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 protect | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 effects | det |
| 34 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 mitigate | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 rise | case |
| 36 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 level | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 sea | punct |
| 38 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rise | compound |
| 39 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 effects | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 initiated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | initiate | present · perfect | the government | several adaptation projects the Coastal Adaptation Project | response | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Patient | |||
| 2 | aim | present | the Coastal Adaptation Project | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | protect not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Coastal Adaptation Project not said here | vulnerable shorelines and reclaim land | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoreline=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | mitigate | to-infinitive | the Coastal Adaptation Project not said here | the effects of level rise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | ||||
| 5 | effect | level rise | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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