Maldives, sentence 379
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.
Velana International Airport is the principal gateway to the Maldives; it is adjacent to the capital city Malé and is connected by Sinamalé Bridge.
Who acts: Velana International Airport, gateway, Sinamalé Bridge · What happens: be, connect · To what, where: principal gateway
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 (Velana International Airport, gateway, Sinamalé Bridge), 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 | Velana | Velana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Airport | compound |
| 2 | International | International | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Airport | amod |
| 3 | Airport | Airport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gateway | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gateway | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gateway | det |
| 6 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gateway | amod |
| 7 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Maldives | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Maldives | det |
| 10 | Maldives | Maldive | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 gateway | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 adjacent | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 adjacent | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 adjacent | cop |
| 14 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gateway | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 city | compound |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 adjacent | obl |
| 19 | Malé | Malé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 city | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 connected | cc |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 connected | aux:pass |
| 22 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 adjacent | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Bridge | case |
| 24 | Sinamalé | Sinamalé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Bridge | compound |
| 25 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 connected | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gateway | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Velana International Airport | the principal gateway | to the Maldives | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | gateway | to the capital city; adjacent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | connect | present · passive | Sinamalé Bridge | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP 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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