Malé, sentence 63
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.
Malé had 2,148 inhabitants in 1888, but population growth soon led to the search for new spaces for housing.
Who acts: Malé, population growth · What happens: have, lead · To what, where: 2,148 inhabitants, 1888
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 (Malé, population growth), 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 | Malé | Malé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 2,148 | 2,148 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 inhabitants | nummod |
| 4 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1888 | case |
| 6 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 9 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 growth | compound |
| 10 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | nsubj |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 led | advmod |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 search | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 search | det |
| 15 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 spaces | case |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spaces | amod |
| 18 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 led | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 housing | case |
| 20 | housing | housing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spaces | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Malé | 2,148 inhabitants | 1888 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Patient | |||
| 2 | lead | past | population growth | to the search; for new spaces for housing; soon property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to search=Patient |
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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