Maldives, sentence 182
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.
It is understood that the Indian Coast Guard escorted the tugboat to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and he was then "transferred" to a Maldivian Coast Guard ship, where officials took him into custody.
Who acts: Indian Coast Guard, Guard, officials · What happens: understand, escort, be, take · To what, where: asylum, tugboat, International Boundary Line, Guard, custody
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 (Indian Coast Guard, Guard, officials), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | aux:pass |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 escorted | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Guard | det |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Guard | amod |
| 7 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Guard | compound |
| 8 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 escorted | nsubj |
| 9 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tugboat | det |
| 11 | tugboat | tugboat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escorted | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Line | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Line | det |
| 14 | International | International | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Line | compound |
| 15 | Maritime | Maritime | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Boundary | compound |
| 16 | Boundary | Boundary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Line | compound |
| 17 | Line | Line | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 escorted | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 IMBL | punct |
| 19 | IMBL | IMBL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Line | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 IMBL | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 transferred | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 transferred | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 transferred | cop |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 transferred | advmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 transferred | punct |
| 26 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 escorted | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 transferred | punct |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 ship | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 ship | det |
| 30 | Maldivian | Maldivian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Coast | compound |
| 31 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Guard | compound |
| 32 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ship | compound |
| 33 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 transferred | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 took | advmod |
| 36 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 took | nsubj |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 ship | acl:relcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 took | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 custody | case |
| 40 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present · passive | asylum | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | escort | past | the Indian Coast Guard | the tugboat | the International Boundary Line | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tugboat=Theme to line=Destination | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Guard | then | to a Guard ship; transfer property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | past | officials | Guard | custody | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into custody=Destination |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Maldives», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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