Kingstown, sentence 22
From Wikipedia, «Kingstown», 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.
From 1980 to 1991, Kingstown saw a 7.81% decline in its population while its suburbs expanded by 25.56%.
Who acts: Kingstown, suburbs · What happens: see, expand · To what, where: % decline, 1980 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kingstown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kingstown, suburbs), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1980 | case |
| 2 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 saw | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 1991 | case |
| 4 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1980 | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1980 | punct |
| 6 | Kingstown | Kingstown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 decline | det |
| 9 | 7.81 | 7.81 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 % | nummod |
| 10 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 11 decline | compound |
| 11 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 population | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 population | nmod:poss |
| 14 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decline | nmod |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 expanded | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 suburbs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 expanded | nsubj |
| 18 | expanded | expand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 % | case |
| 20 | 25.56 | 25.56 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 % | nummod |
| 21 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 18 expanded | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Kingstown | a % decline | 1980 to 1991 | in decline's population | tree rules | ||
| 2 | expand | participle | population's suburbs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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