Guyana, sentence 34
From Wikipedia, «Guyana», 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.
Although Christopher Columbus was the first European to sight Guyana during his third voyage (in 1498), and Sir Walter Raleigh wrote an account in 1596, the Dutch were the first Europeans to establish colonies: Pomeroon (1581), Essequibo (1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752).
Who acts: Christopher, Walter, Dutch · What happens: be, write, establish, voyage · To what, where: account, 1596, first Europeans, colonies
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Guyana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christopher, Walter, Dutch), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 7 European | mark |
| 2 | Christopher | Christopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 European | nsubj |
| 3 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Christopher | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 European | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 European | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 European | amod |
| 7 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Europeans | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sight | mark |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 European | conj |
| 10 | Guyana | Guyana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | appos |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 voyage | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 voyage | amod |
| 14 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 European | obl |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 1498 | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 1498 | case |
| 17 | 1498 | 1498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 voyage | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 1498 | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrote | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wrote | cc |
| 21 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Walter | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wrote | nsubj |
| 23 | Raleigh | Raleigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Walter | flat |
| 24 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 European | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 account | det |
| 26 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrote | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1596 | case |
| 28 | 1596 | 1596 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 wrote | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 European | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Dutch | det |
| 31 | Dutch | Dutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Europeans | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 Europeans | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Europeans | det |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 Europeans | amod |
| 35 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 establish | mark |
| 37 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 Europeans | advcl |
| 38 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 establish | obj |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 Pomeroon | punct |
| 40 | Pomeroon | Pomeroon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 colonies | appos |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 1581 | punct |
| 42 | 1581 | 1581 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Pomeroon | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 1581 | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Essequibo | punct |
| 45 | Essequibo | Essequibo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Pomeroon | conj |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 1616 | punct |
| 47 | 1616 | 1616 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 Essequibo | appos |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 1616 | punct |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Berbice | punct |
| 50 | Berbice | Berbice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Pomeroon | conj |
| 51 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 52 1627 | punct |
| 52 | 1627 | 1627 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 50 Berbice | appos |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 52 1627 | punct |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Demerara | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 Demerara | cc |
| 56 | Demerara | Demerara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Pomeroon | appos |
| 57 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 58 1752 | punct |
| 58 | 1752 | 1752 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 56 Demerara | appos |
| 59 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 56 Demerara | punct |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 Europeans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Christopher | during Christopher's third voyage | sight conj; european property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write | past | Walter Sir | a account | 1596 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent account=Theme in 1596=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the Dutch | the first Europeans | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | establish | to-infinitive | the Dutch not said here | colonies | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Patient | ||||
| 5 | voyage | Christopher | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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