Palau, sentence 8
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.
Palau was first drawn on a European map by the Bohemian missionary Paul Klein based on a description given by a group of Palauans shipwrecked on the Philippine coast on Samar.
Who acts: Bohemian missionary · What happens: draw, base, give, shipwreck · To what, where: Palau, European map, description, Palauans, Philippine coast
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 (Bohemian missionary), 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 | Palau | Palau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawn | aux:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 drawn | advmod |
| 4 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 map | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 map | det |
| 7 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 map | amod |
| 8 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 missionary | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 missionary | det |
| 11 | Bohemian | bohemian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 missionary | amod |
| 12 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | obl |
| 13 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 missionary | appos |
| 14 | Klein | Klein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Paul | flat |
| 15 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 description | case |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 description | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 description | det |
| 18 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 missionary | nmod |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 description | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 group | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 group | det |
| 22 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Palauans | case |
| 24 | Palauans | palauan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 group | nmod |
| 25 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 Palauans | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 coast | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coast | det |
| 28 | Philippine | philippine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 coast | amod |
| 29 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shipwrecked | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 Samar | case |
| 31 | Samar | Samar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 coast | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | the Bohemian missionary base a description | Palau | a European map | first property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on map=Destination | ||
| 2 | base | participle | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give | participle | a description not said here | by a group of Palauans | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shipwreck | participle | Palauans not said here | the Philippine coast on Samar | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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