Lithuania, sentence 26
From Wikipedia, «Lithuania», 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.
However, the stream is very small, and some find it improbable that such a small and localized body of water could have lent its name to an entire nation.
Who acts: stream, some, area · What happens: be, find, localize, lend, name · To what, where: area, small body
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lithuania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, some, area), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stream | det |
| 4 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 find | nsubj |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | improbable | improbable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 find | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 lent | mark |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 body | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 body | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 localized | cc |
| 19 | localized | localize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 small | conj |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lent | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 lent | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 lent | aux |
| 25 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 improbable | advcl |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lent | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 nation | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 nation | det |
| 30 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nation | amod |
| 31 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lent | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stream | however, small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present | some | area | improbable property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | localize | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lend | could · perfect · passive | such small body of water | to a entire nation; area's name obj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | area | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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