Nauru, sentence 32
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 1798, the British sea captain John Fearn, on his trading ship Hunter (300 tons), became the first Westerner to report sighting Nauru, calling it "Pleasant Island" because of its attractive appearance.
Who acts: British sea captain · What happens: become, report, sight, call · To what, where: first Westerner, 1798, Nauru, Westerner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (British sea captain), 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 1798 | case |
| 2 | 1798 | 1798 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 became | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1798 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 captain | det |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 captain | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captain | compound |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | nsubj |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 captain | appos |
| 9 | Fearn | Fearn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 John | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ship | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ship | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ship | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ship | compound |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captain | conj |
| 15 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ship | appos |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 tons | punct |
| 17 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 tons | nummod |
| 18 | tons | ton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 captain | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 tons | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 captain | punct |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Westerner | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 Westerner | amod |
| 24 | Westerner | westerner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 report | mark |
| 26 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Westerner | acl |
| 27 | sighting | sight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 report | xcomp |
| 28 | Nauru | Nauru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sighting | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 calling | punct |
| 30 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 became | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 calling | obj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Island | punct |
| 33 | Pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Island | amod |
| 34 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 calling | xcomp |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Island | punct |
| 36 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 40 appearance | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 because | fixed |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 39 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 appearance | amod |
| 40 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 calling | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the British sea captain and John's trading ship | the first Westerner | in 1798 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1798=Result | |||
| 2 | report | to-infinitive | the British sea captain and John's trading ship not said here | the first Westerner not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sight | gerund | the British sea captain and John's trading ship not said here | Nauru | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nauru=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | the British sea captain and John's trading ship not said here | Westerner | because Westerner's attractive appearance; Pleasant Island xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Nauru/32/