Nauru, sentence 282
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.
Schools are frequently forced to close because they do not have reliable toilets or drinking water for students to use.
Who acts: Schools · What happens: force, close, not have, drink, use · To what, where: Schools, reliable toilets, water
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 (Schools), 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 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 forced | aux:pass |
| 3 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 4 forced | advmod |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 close | mark |
| 6 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | xcomp |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 close | advcl |
| 12 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 toilets | amod |
| 13 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 drinking | cc |
| 15 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 toilets | conj |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drinking | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 students | case |
| 18 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drinking | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 use | mark |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 students | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | present · passive | Schools | frequently property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | close | to-infinitive | Schools not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not have | present · do-support | schools = school | reliable toilets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drink | gerund | schools = school not said here | water | for students | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive | schools = school not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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, «Nauru», 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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