Maldives, sentence 270
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.
Maldivian beaches serve as nesting grounds for the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), the hawksbill sea turtle, and the leatherback sea turtle.
Who acts: Maldivian beaches · What happens: serve, nest · To what, where: sea turtle, grounds
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 (Maldivian beaches), 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 | Maldivian | maldivian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beaches | amod |
| 2 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 serve | nsubj |
| 3 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 nesting | mark |
| 5 | nesting | nest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 serve | advcl |
| 6 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 nesting | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 turtle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 turtle | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turtle | amod |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turtle | compound |
| 11 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nesting | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 mydas | punct |
| 13 | Chelonia | Chelonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mydas | compound |
| 14 | mydas | myda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turtle | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 mydas | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turtle | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 turtle | det |
| 18 | hawksbill | hawksbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turtle | compound |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turtle | compound |
| 20 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turtle | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turtle | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turtle | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 turtle | det |
| 24 | leatherback | leatherback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sea | compound |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turtle | compound |
| 26 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serve | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present | Maldivian beaches | the sea turtle | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | nest | gerund | Maldivian beaches not said here | grounds | for the green sea turtle and the hawksbill sea turtle | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Location |
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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