Monrovia, sentence 125
From Wikipedia, «Monrovia», 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 main exports include latex and iron ore, and fishing makes an important economic contribution, although fishing is unsafe and local estimates state that until recently five people died each month on average off the coast.
Who acts: main exports, fishing, estimates state · What happens: include, make, be, die · To what, where: latex, important economic contribution, average
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Monrovia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (main exports, fishing, estimates state), 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 | 5 exports | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 exports | amod |
| 5 | exports | export | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 include | nsubj |
| 6 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | latex | latex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 include | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ore | cc |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ore | compound |
| 10 | ore | ore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 latex | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 makes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 makes | cc |
| 13 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 makes | nsubj |
| 14 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 include | parataxis |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 contribution | det |
| 16 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 contribution | amod |
| 17 | economic | economic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 contribution | amod |
| 18 | contribution | contribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 makes | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 unsafe | punct |
| 20 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 23 unsafe | mark |
| 21 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unsafe | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 unsafe | cop |
| 23 | unsafe | unsafe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 makes | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 state | cc |
| 25 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 estimates | amod |
| 26 | estimates | estimate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 state | compound |
| 27 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unsafe | conj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 died | nsubj |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 died | mark |
| 30 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 31 five | advmod |
| 31 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 people | nummod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 died | nsubj |
| 33 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 state | acl:relcl |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 month | det |
| 35 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 died | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 average | case |
| 37 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 died | obl |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 coast | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 coast | det |
| 40 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 average | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 include | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | the city's main exports | latex and iron ore | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latex=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | fishing | a important economic contribution | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contribution=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | fishing | estimates state conj; unsafe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | past | estimates state | average off the coast | month | five people nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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, «Monrovia», 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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