Mauritius, sentence 178
From Wikipedia, «Mauritius», 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.
In 1959, Harold Macmillan had made his famous "Wind of Change Speech" in which he acknowledged that the best option for Britain was to give complete independence to its colonies.
Who acts: Harold, best option · What happens: make, acknowledge, give, wind · To what, where: famous Wind, 1959, complete independence, colonies, Change Speech
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mauritius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harold, best option), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1959 | case |
| 2 | 1959 | 1959 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 made | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1959 | punct |
| 4 | Harold | Harold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 5 | Macmillan | Macmillan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Harold | flat |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Wind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Wind | amod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wind | punct |
| 11 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Speech | case |
| 13 | Change | Change | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Speech | compound |
| 14 | Speech | Speech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wind | nmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wind | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 acknowledged | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 19 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Wind | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 give | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 option | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 option | amod |
| 23 | option | option | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | nsubj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Britain | case |
| 25 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 option | nmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 give | aux |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 give | mark |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 acknowledged | ccomp |
| 29 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 independence | amod |
| 30 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 colonies | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 colonies | nmod:poss |
| 33 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 give | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | Harold | Harold's famous Wind of Change Speech | 1959 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Product | |||
| 2 | acknowledge | past | Harold | Harold's famous Wind of Change Speech | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the best option for Britain | complete independence | option's colonies | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent independence=Theme to colony=Recipient | |||
| 4 | wind in a quote | Harold | Change Speech | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent 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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