Malé, sentence 43
From Wikipedia, «Malé», 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.
Owing to a large amount of tuna fish offal and blood, the waters around that sandbank looked like a big pool of blood ("maa ley gandeh": "maa" from the Sanskrit मह "maha", meaning big, and "lē" blood).
Who acts: waters, ley gandeh · What happens: owe, look, mean, amount · To what, where: large amount, tuna fish offal
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, ley gandeh), 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 | Owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 looked | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 amount | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 amount | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 amount | amod |
| 5 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Owing | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 offal | case |
| 7 | tuna | tuna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offal | compound |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offal | compound |
| 9 | offal | offal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amount | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blood | cc |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offal | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owing | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waters | det |
| 14 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 sandbank | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 sandbank | det |
| 17 | sandbank | sandbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waters | nmod |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 pool | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pool | det |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pool | amod |
| 22 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pool | nmod |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 gandeh | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 gandeh | punct |
| 27 | maa | maa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ley | compound |
| 28 | ley | ley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gandeh | compound |
| 29 | gandeh | gandeh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pool | conj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 gandeh | punct |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 maa | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 maa | punct |
| 33 | maa | maa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gandeh | conj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 maa | punct |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 मह | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 मह | det |
| 37 | Sanskrit | Sanskrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 मह | compound |
| 38 | मह | मह | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 maa | nmod |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 maha | punct |
| 40 | maha | maha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 मह | appos |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 maha | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 meaning | punct |
| 43 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 gandeh | acl |
| 44 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 meaning | xcomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 blood | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 blood | cc |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 lē | punct |
| 48 | lē | lē | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 blood | compound |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 lē | punct |
| 50 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | parataxis |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 blood | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | gerund | the waters around that sandbank not said here | to a large amount of tuna fish offal and blood goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to amount=Goal | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the waters around that sandbank | like a big pool of blood and ley gandeh and maa from the Sanskrit मह; lē blood parataxis | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | ley gandeh and maa from the Sanskrit मह not said here | big property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | amount | tuna fish offal and blood | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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