Nauru, sentence 11
From Wikipedia, «Nauru», 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.
At various points since 2001, it has accepted aid from the Australian Government in exchange for hosting the Nauru Regional Processing Centre, a controversial offshore Australian immigration detention facility.
Who acts: Australian Government, exchange, Nauru · What happens: accept, host, centre · To what, where: independence, various points
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nauru». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Australian Government, exchange, Nauru), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 points | case |
| 2 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 points | amod |
| 3 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 accepted | obl |
| 4 | since | since | ADP | _ | 5 2001 | case |
| 5 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 points | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 points | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 accepted | aux |
| 9 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Government | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Government | det |
| 13 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Government | amod |
| 14 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obl:agent |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 exchange | case |
| 16 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obl |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 hosting | mark |
| 18 | hosting | host | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 exchange | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Centre | det |
| 20 | Nauru | Nauru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Centre | nsubj |
| 21 | Regional | regional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Centre | amod |
| 22 | Processing | processing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Centre | compound |
| 23 | Centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hosting | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 facility | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 facility | det |
| 26 | controversial | controversial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 facility | amod |
| 27 | offshore | offshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 facility | amod |
| 28 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 facility | amod |
| 29 | immigration | immigration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 detention | compound |
| 30 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 facility | compound |
| 31 | facility | facility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Centre | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | present · perfect · passive | the Australian Government | independence | various points since 2001 | in exchange; aid obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | host | gerund | exchange not said here | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | centre | Nauru | a controversial offshore Australian detention facility conj | tree rules |
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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