Palau, sentence 214
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.
Because of the inheritance of the education system from the Republic's time as a trust territory, English is a core subject within the Palauan Education System, with a majority of its population utilizing it as a second language.
Who acts: English, majority · What happens: be, utilize, inherit · To what, where: core subject, population, education system
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 (English, majority), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 inheritance | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inheritance | det |
| 4 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 system | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 system | det |
| 7 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | compound |
| 8 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inheritance | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Republic | det |
| 11 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Republic | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 system | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 territory | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 territory | det |
| 16 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 territory | compound |
| 17 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 subject | punct |
| 19 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 subject | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 subject | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 subject | det |
| 22 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 subject | compound |
| 23 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inheritance | conj |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 System | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 System | det |
| 26 | Palauan | Palauan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 System | compound |
| 27 | Education | Education | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 System | compound |
| 28 | System | System | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 subject | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 majority | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 majority | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 majority | det |
| 32 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inheritance | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 population | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 population | nmod:poss |
| 35 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 majority | nmod |
| 36 | utilizing | utilize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 majority | acl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 utilizing | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 language | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 language | det |
| 40 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 language | amod |
| 41 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 utilizing | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inheritance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | English | a core subject | within the Palauan Education System | tree rules | |||
| 2 | utilize | gerund | a majority of majority's population not said here | population | as a second language | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | inherit | the education system from the Republic's time as a trust territory | nom inheritance «act 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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