Maseru, sentence 55
From Wikipedia, «Maseru», 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 city's products once included candles, carpets and mohair products but these have been overshadowed by South African industries.
Who acts: products, South African industries · What happens: include, overshadow · To what, where: candles, these
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maseru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (products, South African industries), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 products | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 included | nsubj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 included | advmod |
| 6 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 included | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carpets | punct |
| 9 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 candles | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 products | cc |
| 11 | mohair | mohair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 products | compound |
| 12 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 candles | conj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 overshadowed | cc |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 overshadowed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 overshadowed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 overshadowed | aux:pass |
| 17 | overshadowed | overshadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 candles | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 industries | case |
| 19 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 industries | compound |
| 20 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 industries | amod |
| 21 | industries | industry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 overshadowed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 included | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | past | the city's products | candles and carpets and mohair products | once property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | |||
| 2 | overshadow | present · perfect · passive | South African industries | these | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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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