Port Louis, sentence 127
From Wikipedia, «Port Louis», 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.
Malcolm de Chazal was a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter who was often seen in the capital, mostly at the central market, Champ de Mars and l'hôtel National.
Who acts: Malcolm · What happens: be, see · To what, where: common Mauritian visionary writer, capital
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Louis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malcolm), 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 | Malcolm | Malcolm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 writer | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Malcolm | flat |
| 3 | Chazal | Chazal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Malcolm | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 writer | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 writer | det |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 writer | amod |
| 7 | Mauritian | mauritian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 writer | amod |
| 8 | visionary | visionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 writer | compound |
| 9 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 painter | cc |
| 11 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 writer | conj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 seen | advmod |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 writer | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 capital | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 market | punct |
| 20 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 24 market | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 market | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 market | det |
| 23 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 market | amod |
| 24 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 writer | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Mars | punct |
| 26 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mars | compound |
| 27 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Champ | flat |
| 28 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 market | appos |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 l'hôtel | cc |
| 30 | l'hôtel | l'hôtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mars | conj |
| 31 | National | National | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 l'hôtel | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 writer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Malcolm | a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter and the central market | painter conj; the central market conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a common Mauritian visionary writer and painter and the central market | the capital | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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