Nauru, sentence 160
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.
In 2001, the MV Tampa, a Norwegian ship that had rescued 438 refugees from a stranded boat, was seeking to dock in Australia.
Who acts: MV Tampa · What happens: rescue, strand, seek, dock · To what, where: Norwegian ship, 2001, Australia
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 (MV Tampa), 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 2001 | case |
| 2 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 seeking | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2001 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tampa | det |
| 5 | MV | MV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tampa | compound |
| 6 | Tampa | Tampa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 seeking | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ship | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tampa | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rescued | aux |
| 13 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ship | acl:relcl |
| 14 | 438 | 438 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 refugees | nummod |
| 15 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rescued | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 boat | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 boat | det |
| 18 | stranded | strand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 boat | amod |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 refugees | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tampa | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seeking | aux |
| 22 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 dock | mark |
| 24 | dock | dock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seeking | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Australia | case |
| 26 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 dock | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | a Norwegian ship | 438 refugees obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strand | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | seek | past · progressive | the MV Tampa | 2001 | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dock not said to happen | to-infinitive | the MV Tampa not said here | Australia | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in australia=Destination |
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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