New Zealand, sentence 269
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.
Most major cities and towns are linked by bus services, although the private car is the predominant mode of transport.
Who acts: bus services, private car · What happens: link, be · To what, where: Most major cities, predominant mode
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 (bus services, private car), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 cities | amod |
| 2 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 3 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 towns | cc |
| 5 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cities | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 linked | aux:pass |
| 7 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 services | case |
| 9 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 services | compound |
| 10 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 linked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mode | punct |
| 12 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 mode | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 14 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 car | amod |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mode | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mode | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mode | det |
| 18 | predominant | predominant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mode | amod |
| 19 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 linked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 transport | case |
| 21 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mode | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 linked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | link | present · passive | bus services | Most major cities and towns | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the private car | the predominant mode | of transport | tree rules |
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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