Palau, sentence 106
From Wikipedia, «Palau», 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 June 2009, Palau announced that it would accept up to seventeen Uyghurs who had previously been detained by the American military at Guantanamo Bay, with some American compensation for the cost of their upkeep.
Who acts: Palau, west, American military · What happens: announce, accept up, detain, cost · To what, where: seventeen Uyghurs, upkeep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Palau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palau, west, American military), 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 June | case |
| 2 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | obl |
| 3 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 June | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 June | punct |
| 5 | Palau | Palau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 announced | nsubj |
| 6 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 accept | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accept | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 accept | aux |
| 10 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 announced | ccomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 accept | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Uyghurs | case |
| 13 | seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Uyghurs | nummod |
| 14 | Uyghurs | uyghur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 accept | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 detained | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 detained | aux |
| 17 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 19 detained | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 detained | aux:pass |
| 19 | detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Uyghurs | acl:relcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 military | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 military | det |
| 22 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 military | amod |
| 23 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 detained | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Bay | case |
| 25 | Guantanamo | Guantanamo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bay | compound |
| 26 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 military | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 compensation | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 compensation | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 compensation | det |
| 30 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 compensation | amod |
| 31 | compensation | compensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accept | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 cost | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cost | det |
| 34 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 compensation | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 upkeep | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 upkeep | nmod:poss |
| 37 | upkeep | upkeep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cost | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | Palau | june | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accept up | would | west | to seventeen Uyghurs; with some American compensation for the cost of Uyghurs's upkeep | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to uyghur=be' | ||||
| 3 | detain | past · perfect · passive | the American military at Guantanamo Bay | seventeen Uyghurs | previously property | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | cost | Uyghurs's upkeep | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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