Lesotho, sentence 255
From Wikipedia, «Lesotho», 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.
A pupil at this level of literacy can read ahead or backwards through parts of text to link and interpret information.
Who acts: pupil · What happens: read, link, interpret · To what, where: parts, information
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lesotho». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupil), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pupil | det |
| 2 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 read | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 level | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 level | det |
| 5 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pupil | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 literacy | case |
| 7 | literacy | literacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 level | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 read | aux |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 9 read | advmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 backwards | cc |
| 12 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 10 ahead | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 parts | case |
| 14 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 read | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 text | case |
| 16 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 parts | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 link | mark |
| 18 | link | link | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 read | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 interpret | cc |
| 20 | interpret | interpret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 link | conj |
| 21 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 interpret | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | can | a pupil at this level of literacy | parts of text | ahead property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | link | to-infinitive | a pupil at this level of literacy not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | interpret | infinitive | a pupil at this level of literacy not said here | information | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent information=Theme |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Lesotho», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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