Mozambique, sentence 344
From Wikipedia, «Mozambique», 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 Makonde are known for their wood carving and elaborate masks, which are commonly used in traditional dances.
Who acts: wood · What happens: know, carve, use · To what, where: Makonde, wood, traditional dances
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mozambique». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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 Makonde | det |
| 2 | Makonde | Makonde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 8 | carving | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wood | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 masks | cc |
| 10 | elaborate | elaborate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 masks | amod |
| 11 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 used | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | aux:pass |
| 15 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 16 used | advmod |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wood | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 dances | case |
| 18 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dances | amod |
| 19 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | the Makonde | for Makonde's wood and elaborate masks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carve | gerund | Makonde's wood and elaborate masks not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | Makonde's wood and elaborate masks | traditional dances | commonly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: 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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