Honiara, sentence 104
From Wikipedia, «Honiara», 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.
East of the mouth of the Mataniko River is the beach where, in the shallow waters of the sea, wrecks of a Japanese ship destroyed on 23 October 1942 by American artillery and small arms can be seen.
Who acts: East, beach · What happens: be, destroy, see, wreck · To what, where: beach, Japanese ship, 23, wrecks
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Honiara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East, beach), 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 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 beach | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mouth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouth | det |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 East | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 River | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 River | det |
| 7 | Mataniko | Mataniko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 River | compound |
| 8 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mouth | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beach | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beach | det |
| 11 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 beach | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waters | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 waters | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waters | det |
| 16 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 waters | amod |
| 17 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beach | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waters | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrecks | punct |
| 22 | wrecks | wreck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ship | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ship | det |
| 25 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ship | amod |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrecks | nmod |
| 27 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 ship | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 23 | case |
| 29 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 destroyed | obl |
| 30 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | 1942 | 1942 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 23 | flat |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 artillery | case |
| 33 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 artillery | amod |
| 34 | artillery | artillery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 destroyed | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 arms | cc |
| 36 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 arms | amod |
| 37 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 artillery | conj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 seen | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 seen | aux:pass |
| 40 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 beach | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 beach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | East of the mouth of the Mataniko River | the beach and the shallow waters of the sea | the shallow waters of the sea conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | destroy | participle | a Japanese ship not said here | 23 October | by American artillery and small arms | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | see | can · passive | the beach and the shallow waters of the sea not said here | wrecks of a Japanese ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wreck | a Japanese ship | nom wreck «state transitive»: of=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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