Marshall Islands, sentence 28
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Almost the entire population of the islands practices some religion: three-quarters of the country follows either the United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands (UCCCMI) or the Assemblies of God.
Who acts: entire population, three quarters · What happens: practice, follow · To what, where: religion
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Marshall Islands». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (entire population, three quarters), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 population | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 population | det |
| 3 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 population | amod |
| 4 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practices | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 islands | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 islands | det |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 population | nmod |
| 8 | practices | practice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 religion | det |
| 10 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practices | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 quarters | punct |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 quarters | nummod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 three | punct |
| 14 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 practices | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 follows | obl |
| 18 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 quarters | acl:relcl |
| 19 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 22 Church | cc:preconj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Church | det |
| 21 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Church | amod |
| 22 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 quarters | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Christ | case |
| 24 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Church | nmod |
| 25 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Congregational | punct |
| 26 | Congregational | Congregational | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Church | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Islands | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Islands | det |
| 29 | Marshall | Marshall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Islands | compound |
| 30 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 Congregational | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 UCCCMI | punct |
| 32 | UCCCMI | UCCCMI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Church | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 UCCCMI | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 Assemblies | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Assemblies | det |
| 36 | Assemblies | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 Church | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 God | case |
| 38 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Assemblies | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 practices | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practice | present | the entire population of the islands | some religion | three quarters the United Church of Christ and Congregational in the Marshall Islands or the Assemblies of God obl | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | present | three quarters the United Church of Christ and Congregational in the Marshall Islands or the Assemblies of God not said here | of the country | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of country=Trajectory |
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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