Funafuti, sentence 9
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 1909, the first resident magistrate was appointed to Funafuti; in 1915, Funafuti, along with the rest of the Ellice Islands, were incorporated into the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a crown colony.
What happens: appoint, incorporate · To what, where: first resident magistrate, Funafuti, 1909, Gilbert Islands
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1909 | case |
| 2 | 1909 | 1909 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 appointed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1909 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 magistrate | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 magistrate | amod |
| 6 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 magistrate | compound |
| 7 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appointed | aux:pass |
| 9 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Funafuti | case |
| 11 | Funafuti | Funafuti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appointed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 1915 | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1915 | case |
| 14 | 1915 | 1915 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 appointed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Funafuti | punct |
| 16 | Funafuti | Funafuti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appointed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rest | punct |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 rest | case |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 rest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appointed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Islands | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Islands | det |
| 24 | Ellice | Ellice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Islands | compound |
| 25 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 rest | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 incorporated | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 incorporated | aux:pass |
| 28 | incorporated | incorporate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 appointed | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 Islands | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Islands | det |
| 31 | Gilbert | Gilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Islands | compound |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Ellice | cc |
| 33 | Ellice | Ellice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Gilbert | conj |
| 34 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 incorporated | obl |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 colony | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 colony | det |
| 37 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 colony | compound |
| 38 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 incorporated | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | the first resident magistrate | Funafuti | 1909 | in 1915; along the rest of the Ellice Islands; Funafuti obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to funafuti=Attribute | ||
| 2 | incorporate | past · passive | the Gilbert Islands | as a crown colony | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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