Malé, sentence 29
From Wikipedia, «Malé», 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.
Many Maldivians and foreign workers living in other parts of the country find themselves in occasional short-term residence on the island since it is the centre of administration and bureaucracy.
Who acts: foreign workers, population · What happens: live, find, be · To what, where: other parts, Maldivians, occasional term residence, foreign workers
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign workers, population), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Maldivians | amod |
| 2 | Maldivians | Maldivian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 workers | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 workers | cc |
| 4 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 workers | amod |
| 5 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 workers | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 parts | case |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 parts | amod |
| 9 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 living | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parts | nmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 living | advcl |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 residence | case |
| 16 | occasional | occasional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 residence | amod |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 term | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 short | punct |
| 19 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 residence | compound |
| 20 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 residence | nmod |
| 24 | since | since | ADP | _ | 28 centre | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 centre | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 centre | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 centre | det |
| 28 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 administration | case |
| 30 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 centre | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bureaucracy | cc |
| 32 | bureaucracy | bureaucracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 centre | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 workers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | foreign workers Many Maldivians not said here | other parts of the country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | foreign workers Many Maldivians not said here | Maldivians = maldivian | occasional term residence on the island | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | population | since the centre and bureaucracy | of administration; bureaucracy conj | 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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