Kiribati, sentence 430
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.
Starch-based carbohydrate sources were not plentiful due to the hostile climate of the atolls, with only the northernmost atolls being viable for constant agriculture.
Who acts: based carbohydrate sources, northernmost atolls, atolls · What happens: base, not be, be, acclimate
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 (based carbohydrate sources, northernmost atolls, atolls), 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 | Starch | starch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 based | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Starch | punct |
| 3 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sources | amod |
| 4 | carbohydrate | carbohydrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sources | compound |
| 5 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plentiful | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plentiful | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 plentiful | advmod |
| 8 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 climate | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 due | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 climate | det |
| 12 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 climate | amod |
| 13 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plentiful | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 atolls | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 atolls | det |
| 16 | atolls | atoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 climate | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 viable | punct |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 24 viable | mark |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 atolls | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 atolls | det |
| 21 | northernmost | northernmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 atolls | amod |
| 22 | atolls | atoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 viable | nsubj |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 viable | cop |
| 24 | viable | viable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plentiful | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 agriculture | case |
| 26 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 agriculture | amod |
| 27 | agriculture | agriculture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 viable | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 plentiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | base | participle | Starch compound | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | based carbohydrate sources | due the hostile climate of the atolls; plentiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the northernmost atolls | for constant agriculture; viable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | acclimate | the atolls | nom climate «state 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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