Kiribati, sentence 219
From Wikipedia, «Kiribati», 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.
Each of the 21 inhabited islands has its own local council that takes care of daily affairs.
Who acts: 21, Each, own local council, daily affairs · What happens: inhabit, have, take, care · To what, where: islands, own local council, care
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kiribati». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (21, Each, own local council, daily affairs), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 has | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 inhabited | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 21 | det |
| 4 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 inhabited | nsubj |
| 5 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Each | advcl |
| 6 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 inhabited | obj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 council | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 council | amod |
| 10 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 council | amod |
| 11 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 takes | nsubj |
| 13 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 council | acl:relcl |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 takes | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 affairs | case |
| 16 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 affairs | amod |
| 17 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 care | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | past | the 21 | islands | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Each | representative's own local council | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | present | representative's own local council | care of daily affairs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | care | daily affairs | nom care «act 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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