Grenada, sentence 228
From Wikipedia, «Grenada», 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.
It is not uncommon for a passing bus to honk at or for the conductor to yell out the window to a walking person to determine if there is interest in a ride.
Who acts: conductor, passing bus, interest · What happens: not be, honk, yell out, walk, determine, be · To what, where: window, walking person
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Grenada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conductor, passing bus, interest), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 uncommon | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 uncommon | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 uncommon | advmod |
| 4 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 honk | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bus | det |
| 7 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bus | compound |
| 8 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 honk | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 honk | mark |
| 10 | honk | honk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 uncommon | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 conductor | case |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 conductor | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 conductor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 conductor | det |
| 15 | conductor | conductor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 honk | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 yell | mark |
| 17 | yell | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 honk | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 yell | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yell | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 person | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 person | det |
| 23 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 person | amod |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 yell | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 determine | mark |
| 26 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 yell | advcl |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 is | mark |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 determine | ccomp |
| 30 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 is | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 ride | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 ride | det |
| 33 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 interest | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncommon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | conductor | uncommon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | honk | to-infinitive | a passing bus | at the conductor | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at conductor=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | yell out speech: express | to-infinitive | a passing bus not said here | the window | a walking person | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent window=Topic to person=Recipient | |||
| 4 | walk | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | determine | to-infinitive | a passing bus not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | interest in a ride | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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