Maldives, sentence 1
From Wikipedia, «Maldives», 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.
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean, near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea.
Who acts: Maldives · What happens: know, be, locate · To what, where: Maldives, archipelagic country, South Asia, Indian Ocean
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maldives». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maldives), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Maldives | det |
| 2 | Maldives | Maldive | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 country | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Republic | punct |
| 4 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 6 Republic | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Republic | det |
| 6 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Maldives | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Maldives | case |
| 8 | Maldives | Maldive | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Republic | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 known | cc |
| 11 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 12 known | advmod |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Maldives | acl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Islands | det |
| 15 | Maldive | Maldive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Islands | compound |
| 16 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 known | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Maldives | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 country | cop |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 20 | archipelagic | archipelagic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 country | amod |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Asia | case |
| 23 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Asia | compound |
| 24 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 country | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 located | punct |
| 26 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 country | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Ocean | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Ocean | det |
| 29 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Ocean | amod |
| 30 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 located | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 boundary | punct |
| 32 | near | near | ADP | _ | 35 boundary | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 boundary | det |
| 34 | southeastern | southeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 boundary | amod |
| 35 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 located | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Sea | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Sea | det |
| 38 | Arabian | Arabian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Sea | compound |
| 39 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 boundary | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | Maldives not said here | as the Maldive Islands; historically property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as island=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Maldives | a archipelagic country | South Asia | tree rules | |||
| 3 | locate | participle | the Maldives not said here | the Indian Ocean | near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea | 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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