Nauru, sentence 272

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.

Though residents are trying to salvage the soil that they can, some researchers speculate that there will be no regeneration of soils even after the mining ceases.

Who acts: residents, researchers, regeneration, mining · What happens: try, salvage, speculate, be, cease, regenerate · To what, where: soil, soils

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 (residents, researchers, regeneration, mining), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	4 trying	mark
2	residents	resident	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trying	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 speculate	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 salvage	mark
6	salvage	salvage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soil	det
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salvage	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 can	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 can	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 salvage	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 researchers	det
14	researchers	researcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 speculate	nsubj
15	speculate	speculate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 be	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 be	expl
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 speculate	ccomp
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 regeneration	det
21	regeneration	regeneration	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 be	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 soils	case
23	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 regeneration	nmod
24	even	even	ADV	_	28 ceases	advmod
25	after	after	SCONJ	_	28 ceases	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mining	det
27	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ceases	nsubj
28	ceases	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 soils	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 speculate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	residents			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	salvage not said to happen	to-infinitive	residents not said here	the soil		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
3	speculate	present	some researchers			tree rules
4	be	future	no regeneration of soils		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cease	present	the mining	soils not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality soil=Eventuality
6	regenerate			soils		nom regeneration «process 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.

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The tree

Pragmatics

Nauru, sentence 272