Ghana, sentence 359
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.
The Nana Otafrija Pallbearing Services, also known as the Dancing Pallbearers, were featured in a BBC feature story in 2017, and footage from the story became part of an Internet meme in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who acts: footage · What happens: know, feature, become · To what, where: Nana Otafrija, BBC feature story, part
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 (footage), 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 Otafrija | det |
| 2 | Nana | Nana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Otafrija | compound |
| 3 | Otafrija | Otafrija | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 featured | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Pallbearing | Pallbearing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Services | compound |
| 5 | Services | Service | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Otafrija | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 known | advmod |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Otafrija | parataxis |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Pallbearers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Pallbearers | det |
| 11 | Dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Pallbearers | compound |
| 12 | Pallbearers | pallbearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 known | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Otafrija | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 featured | aux:pass |
| 15 | featured | feature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 story | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 18 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 story | compound |
| 19 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 story | compound |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 featured | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 2017 | case |
| 22 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 featured | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 became | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 became | cc |
| 25 | footage | footage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 became | nsubj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 story | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 story | det |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 footage | nmod |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 featured | conj |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 became | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 meme | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 meme | det |
| 33 | Internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meme | compound |
| 34 | meme | meme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 part | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 wake | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wake | det |
| 37 | wake | wake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meme | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 pandemic | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 pandemic | det |
| 40 | COVID | COVID | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 pandemic | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 19 | punct |
| 42 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 COVID | flat |
| 43 | pandemic | pandemic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wake | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 featured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | as the Dancing Pallbearers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as pallbearer=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | feature | past · passive | the Nana Otafrija | a BBC feature story | in 2017 | tree rules | |||
| 3 | become | past | footage from the story | part of a Internet meme in the wake of the COVID pandemic | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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