New Zealand, sentence 76
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.
Since 1937, the islands have been uninhabited except for about six people at Raoul Island station.
Who acts: islands · What happens: be
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 (islands), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 2 1937 | case |
| 2 | 1937 | 1937 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 uninhabited | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1937 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 islands | det |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 uninhabited | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 uninhabited | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 uninhabited | cop |
| 8 | uninhabited | uninhabited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 six | advmod |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 people | nummod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 uninhabited | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 station | case |
| 15 | Raoul | Raoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Island | compound |
| 16 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 station | compound |
| 17 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 uninhabited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | the islands | since 1937 | except six people at Island station; uninhabited property | 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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