Maldives, sentence 212

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.

More than 80% of the Maldives' 1,190 coral islands sit less than 1 meter above sea level, making it the lowest-lying country in the world, and particularly at risk to sea level rise.

Who acts: Maldives · What happens: sit, make, lie · To what, where: 1 meter, sea level, meter

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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	3 80	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 %	nummod
4	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	7 Maldives	obl:unmarked
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Maldives	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Maldives	det
7	Maldives	Maldive	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 sit	nsubj
8	'	's	PART	_	7 Maldives	case
9	1,190	1,190	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 islands	nummod
10	coral	coral	NOUN	_	11 islands	compound
11	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sit	nsubj
12	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	15 1	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 less	fixed
15	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 meter	nummod
16	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obj
17	above	above	ADP	_	19 level	case
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 level	compound
19	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meter	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 making	punct
21	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sit	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 making	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 country	det
24	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 lying	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 lowest	punct
26	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 country	amod
27	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 making	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 country	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 risk	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 risk	cc
33	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	35 risk	advmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 risk	case
35	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 rise	case
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 level	compound
38	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rise	compound
39	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 risk	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the Maldives	1 meter	sea level	at risk to level rise; 1,190 coral islands nsubj	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent meter=Theme at risk=Location
2	make	gerund	the Maldives not said here	meter		the lying country in the world xcomp	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	lie	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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Maldives, sentence 212