Ghana, sentence 23
From Wikipedia, «Ghana», 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.
Lady Flora Shaw later compiled both Arabic and European writings to create detailed narratives of the kingdom.
Who acts: Lady Flora Shaw · What happens: compile, create · To what, where: Arabic, detailed narratives
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ghana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Flora Shaw), 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Shaw | compound |
| 2 | Flora | Flora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Shaw | compound |
| 3 | Shaw | Shaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 compiled | nsubj |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 compiled | advmod |
| 5 | compiled | compile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 Arabic | cc:preconj |
| 7 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 compiled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 writings | cc |
| 9 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 writings | amod |
| 10 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Arabic | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 create | mark |
| 12 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 compiled | advcl |
| 13 | detailed | detailed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 narratives | amod |
| 14 | narratives | narrative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 create | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 narratives | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 compiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compile | past | Lady Flora Shaw | Arabic and European writings | late property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arabic=Product | |||
| 2 | create | to-infinitive | Lady Flora Shaw not said here | detailed narratives of the kingdom | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Result |
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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