Maldives, sentence 190
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The Maldives consists of 1,192 coral islands grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls, that stretch along a length of 871 km north to south, 130 km east to west, spread over roughly 90000 km², of which only 298 km2 is dry land, making this one of the world's most dispersed countries.
Who acts: Maldives, that · What happens: consist, group, stretch, spread, be, make · To what, where: 1,192 coral islands, double chain, length, 90000 km ², dry land, one
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, that), 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 | Maldives | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consists | nsubj |
| 3 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 islands | case |
| 5 | 1,192 | 1,192 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 islands | nummod |
| 6 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 islands | amod |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consists | obl |
| 8 | grouped | group | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 islands | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chain | det |
| 11 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chain | amod |
| 12 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grouped | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 atolls | case |
| 14 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 atolls | nummod |
| 15 | atolls | atoll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chain | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stretch | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stretch | nsubj |
| 18 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 consists | conj |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 length | det |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stretch | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 km | case |
| 23 | 871 | 871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 km | nummod |
| 24 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 length | nmod |
| 25 | north | north | ADV | _ | 24 km | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 south | case |
| 27 | south | south | ADV | _ | 25 north | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 km | punct |
| 29 | 130 | 130 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 km | nummod |
| 30 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 length | conj |
| 31 | east | east | ADV | _ | 18 stretch | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 west | mark |
| 33 | west | west | ADV | _ | 31 east | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spread | punct |
| 35 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stretch | conj |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 ² | case |
| 37 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 38 90000 | advmod |
| 38 | 90000 | 90000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 ² | nummod |
| 39 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ² | compound |
| 40 | ² | ² | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spread | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 land | punct |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 which | case |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 land | nsubj |
| 44 | only | only | ADV | _ | 45 298 | advmod |
| 45 | 298 | 298 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 49 land | nsubj |
| 46 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 298 | flat |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 land | cop |
| 48 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 land | amod |
| 49 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spread | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 making | punct |
| 51 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stretch | advcl |
| 52 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 one | det |
| 53 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 making | obj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 countries | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 world | det |
| 56 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 countries | nmod:poss |
| 57 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 56 world | case |
| 58 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 59 dispersed | advmod |
| 59 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 countries | amod |
| 60 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 one | nmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | the Maldives | of 1,192 coral islands | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | group | participle | 1,192 coral islands not said here | in a double chain of 26 atolls goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in chain=Goal | ||||
| 3 | stretch | present | that | a length of 871 km and 130 km | east property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along length=Location | |||
| 4 | spread | participle | that not said here | 90000 km ² | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ²=Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | dry land | which nsubj; 298 nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | gerund | that not said here | this one of the world's dispersed countries | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | ||||
| 7 | disperse | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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