New Zealand, sentence 194
From Wikipedia, «New Zealand», 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.
Tokelau is classified as a non-self-governing territory, but is administered by a council of three elders (one from each Tokelauan atoll).
Who acts: council · What happens: classify, non-self-govern, administer · To what, where: Tokelau, one, Tokelauan atoll
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «New Zealand». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council), 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 | Tokelau | Tokelau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 classified | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 classified | aux:pass |
| 3 | classified | classify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 territory | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 territory | det |
| 6 | non-self-governing | non-self-govern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 territory | amod |
| 7 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 classified | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 administered | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 administered | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 administered | aux:pass |
| 11 | administered | administer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 classified | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 council | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 council | det |
| 14 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 administered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 elders | case |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 elders | nummod |
| 17 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 council | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 administered | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 atoll | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 atoll | det |
| 22 | Tokelauan | Tokelauan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 atoll | compound |
| 23 | atoll | atoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 classified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | classify | present · passive | Tokelau | as a non-self-governing territory | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as territory=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | non-self-govern | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | administer | present · passive | a council of three elders | one | each Tokelauan atoll | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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