Japan, sentence 30
From Wikipedia, «Japan», 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 first version of the name in English appears in a book published in 1577, which spelled the name as Giapan in a translation of a 1565 Portuguese letter.
Who acts: first version, 1565 Portuguese letter · What happens: appear, publish, spell, translate · To what, where: book, 1577, translation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Japan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first version, 1565 Portuguese letter), 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 version | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 version | amod |
| 3 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appears | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 name | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 version | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 English | case |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 9 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appears | obl |
| 13 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 book | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1577 | case |
| 15 | 1577 | 1577 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 published | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spelled | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 spelled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 book | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spelled | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Giapan | case |
| 22 | Giapan | Giapan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spelled | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 translation | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 translation | det |
| 25 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spelled | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 letter | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 letter | det |
| 28 | 1565 | 1565 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 letter | nummod |
| 29 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 letter | amod |
| 30 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 translation | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the first version of the name in English | a book | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location | ||||
| 2 | publish | participle | a book not said here | 1577 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spell | participle · passive | a book | a translation of a 1565 Portuguese letter | as Giapan; the name obj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme name=Manner | |||
| 4 | translate | a 1565 Portuguese letter | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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