Maldives, sentence 242
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.
In 1998, sea-temperature warming of as much as 5 C-change due to a single El Niño phenomenon event caused coral bleaching and killed two-thirds of the nation's coral reefs.
Who acts: phenomenon event · What happens: cause, kill · To what, where: coral bleaching, two thirds, 1998
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 (phenomenon event), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1998 | case |
| 2 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 warming | punct |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 temperature | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warming | compound |
| 7 | warming | warming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 1998 | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 much | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warming | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 change | case |
| 12 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 change | nummod |
| 13 | C | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 change | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 C | punct |
| 15 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 16 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 20 El | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 due | fixed |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 El | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 El | amod |
| 20 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 21 | Niño | Niño | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 El | flat |
| 22 | phenomenon | phenomenon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 event | compound |
| 23 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | nsubj |
| 24 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 El | acl:relcl |
| 25 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bleaching | amod |
| 26 | bleaching | bleaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 killed | cc |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caused | conj |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 thirds | nummod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 two | punct |
| 31 | thirds | third | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 killed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 reefs | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 nation | det |
| 34 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 reefs | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 nation | case |
| 36 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 reefs | amod |
| 37 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 thirds | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 1998 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | phenomenon event | coral bleaching | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bleaching=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | phenomenon event not said here | two thirds of the nation's coral reefs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme |
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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