Maldives, sentence 470
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.
The country's first daily newspaper, Haveeru Daily News was the first and longest–serving newspaper in the history of the Maldives, which was registered on 28 December 1978, and dissolved in 2016.
Who acts: first daily newspaper · What happens: be, serve, register, dissolve · To what, where: newspaper, history, 28, 2016
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 (first daily newspaper), 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 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 newspaper | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 country | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 newspaper | amod |
| 5 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 newspaper | amod |
| 6 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 first | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Haveeru | punct |
| 8 | Haveeru | Haveeru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 newspaper | appos |
| 9 | Daily | Daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 News | amod |
| 10 | News | News | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Haveeru | appos |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 first | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 first | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 serving | cc |
| 15 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 serving | compound |
| 16 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 15 longest | punct |
| 17 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 first | conj |
| 18 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 serving | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 history | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 history | det |
| 21 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 serving | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Maldives | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Maldives | det |
| 24 | Maldives | Maldive | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 history | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 registered | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 registered | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 registered | aux:pass |
| 28 | registered | register | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 history | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 28 | case |
| 30 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 registered | obl |
| 31 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 28 | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 28 | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dissolved | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dissolved | cc |
| 35 | dissolved | dissolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 first | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 2016 | case |
| 37 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 dissolved | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the country's first daily newspaper | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | gerund | the country's first daily newspaper not said here | newspaper | the history of the Maldives | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent newspaper=Value in history=Location | |||
| 3 | register | past · passive | the history of the Maldives | 28 December | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dissolve | participle | 2016 | vn break-45.1 «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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