Port-au-Prince, sentence 8
From Wikipedia, «Port-au-Prince», 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.
The city was catastrophically affected by a massive earthquake in 2010, with large numbers of structures damaged or destroyed.
Who acts: massive earthquake · What happens: affect, damage, destroy · To what, where: city, 2010, structures
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port-au-Prince». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (massive earthquake), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 affected | aux:pass |
| 4 | catastrophically | catastrophically | ADV | _ | 5 affected | advmod |
| 5 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 earthquake | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 earthquake | det |
| 8 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 earthquake | amod |
| 9 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affected | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 2010 | case |
| 11 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 affected | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 numbers | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 numbers | case |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 numbers | amod |
| 15 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 affected | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 structures | case |
| 17 | structures | structure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 numbers | nmod |
| 18 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 structures | acl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 destroyed | cc |
| 20 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 damaged | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | past · passive | a massive earthquake | the city | 2010 | with large numbers of structures; catastrophically property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | damage | participle | structures not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | destroy | participle | 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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