Libya, sentence 318
From Wikipedia, «Libya», 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.
Birds are less frequent but appear near water sources, and invertebrates like scorpions, beetles, and ants form a major part of the ecosystem, often being active at night.
Who acts: Birds, ants · What happens: be, appear, form · To what, where: water sources, major part
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Libya». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, ants), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frequent | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frequent | cop |
| 3 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 frequent | advmod |
| 4 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 appear | cc |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frequent | conj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 sources | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sources | compound |
| 9 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 invertebrates | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invertebrates | cc |
| 12 | invertebrates | invertebrate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sources | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 scorpions | case |
| 14 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 invertebrates | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beetles | punct |
| 16 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sources | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 form | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 form | cc |
| 19 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 form | nsubj |
| 20 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 part | det |
| 22 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 part | amod |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 form | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ecosystem | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ecosystem | det |
| 26 | ecosystem | ecosystem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 active | punct |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 active | advmod |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 active | cop |
| 30 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 appear | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 active | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frequent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Birds | frequent, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | Birds not said here | water sources and invertebrates like scorpions and beetles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near source=Location | ||||
| 3 | form | present | ants | a major part of the ecosystem | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | Birds not said here | night | active, often property | tree rules |
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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