Palau, sentence 238
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.
On 20 June 2022, left fielder Bligh Madris played his first game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Chicago Cubs, thus becoming the first person of Palauan descent to play in the MLB.
Who acts: Bligh · What happens: leave, play, become · To what, where: first game, first person, MLB
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 (Bligh), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 June | case |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 June | nummod |
| 3 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 4 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 June | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 June | punct |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fielder | fielder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Bligh | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Bligh | Bligh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 played | nsubj |
| 9 | Madris | Madris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bligh | flat |
| 10 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 game | nmod:poss |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 game | amod |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 played | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Pirates | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Pirates | det |
| 16 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Pirates | compound |
| 17 | Pirates | Pirate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 played | obl |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 Cubs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Cubs | det |
| 20 | Chicago | Chicago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Cubs | compound |
| 21 | Cubs | Cub | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 played | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 becoming | punct |
| 23 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 becoming | advmod |
| 24 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 played | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 person | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 person | amod |
| 27 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 becoming | xcomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 descent | case |
| 29 | Palauan | Palauan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 descent | compound |
| 30 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 person | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 play | mark |
| 32 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 becoming | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 MLB | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 MLB | det |
| 35 | MLB | MLB | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 play | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | june | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | play | past | Bligh fielder | Bligh's first game | for the Pittsburgh Pirates; against the Chicago Cubs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent game=Theme for pirate=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | become | gerund | Bligh fielder not said here | the first person of Palauan descent | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | Bligh fielder not said here | the MLB | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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