Kiribati, sentence 420
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.
This box is constructed to give a hollow and reverberating tone when struck simultaneously by a chorus of men sitting around it.
Who acts: men · What happens: construct, give, reverberate, strike, sit, chorus · To what, where: box, hollow tone, men
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 (men), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 box | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 constructed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 constructed | aux:pass |
| 4 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 constructed | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tone | det |
| 8 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tone | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reverberating | cc |
| 10 | reverberating | reverberate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hollow | conj |
| 11 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 struck | mark |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 constructed | advcl |
| 14 | simultaneously | simultaneously | ADV | _ | 13 struck | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 chorus | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 chorus | det |
| 17 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chorus | nmod |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 men | acl |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sitting | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | present · passive | this box | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | a hollow tone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reverberate | gerund | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | strike | participle | by a chorus of men; simultaneously property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chorus=Location | |||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | men not said here | box | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location | ||||
| 6 | chorus | men | nom chorus «event 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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