Mauritius, sentence 354
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.
France sent aircraft and specialists from Réunion and Greenpeace said that the leak threatened the survival of thousands of species, who are at "risk of drowning in a sea of pollution".
Who acts: France, specialists, leak, species, risk · What happens: send, say, threaten, be, drown, survive · To what, where: aircraft, survival, risk, sea, thousands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (France, specialists, leak, species), 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 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aircraft | aircraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 5 | specialists | specialist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Réunion | case |
| 7 | Réunion | Réunion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 specialists | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Greenpeace | cc |
| 9 | Greenpeace | Greenpeace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Réunion | conj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 threatened | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leak | det |
| 13 | leak | leak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threatened | nsubj |
| 14 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 survival | det |
| 16 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threatened | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thousands | case |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 survival | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 species | case |
| 20 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 risk | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 risk | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 risk | cop |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 risk | case |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 risk | punct |
| 26 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 species | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 drowning | mark |
| 28 | drowning | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 risk | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drowning | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 pollution | case |
| 33 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sea | nmod |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 risk | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | France | aircraft | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aircraft=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | specialists from Réunion and Greenpeace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | threaten | past | the leak | the survival of thousands of species | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus survival=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | species | risk | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drown in a quote | gerund | risk not said here | a sea of pollution | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | survive | thousands of species | nom survival «state 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Mauritius», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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