Kingdom of the Netherlands, sentence 209
From Wikipedia, «Kingdom of the Netherlands», 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.
As a transitional measure, however, only Netherlands law necessary to function within its legal system took immediate effect when the BES islands joined the Netherlands on 10 October 2010, while most laws of the Netherlands Antilles remained in force.
Who acts: legal system, BES islands, most laws · What happens: function, take, join, remain · To what, where: immediate effect, Netherlands, 10, force
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingdom of the Netherlands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legal system, BES islands, most laws), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 measure | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 measure | det |
| 3 | transitional | transitional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 measure | amod |
| 4 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 necessary | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 measure | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 necessary | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 law | advmod |
| 9 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 law | compound |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 necessary | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 function | mark |
| 13 | function | function | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 necessary | csubj |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 18 took | mark |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 system | nmod:poss |
| 16 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 system | amod |
| 17 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 function | advcl |
| 19 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 effect | amod |
| 20 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 joined | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 BES | det |
| 23 | BES | be | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 islands | compound |
| 24 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 joined | nsubj |
| 25 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Netherlands | det |
| 27 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 joined | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 10 | case |
| 29 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 joined | obl |
| 30 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 remained | punct |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 remained | mark |
| 34 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 laws | amod |
| 35 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 remained | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Antilles | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Antilles | det |
| 38 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Antilles | compound |
| 39 | Antilles | Antilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 laws | nmod |
| 40 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 force | case |
| 42 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 remained | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | function | to-infinitive | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | Council's legal system | immediate effect | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join | past | BES islands | the Netherlands | 10 October 2010 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent netherlands=Patient | |||
| 4 | remain | past | most laws of the Netherlands Antilles | force | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in force=Location |
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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