Port Louis, sentence 16
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.
Raouf Oderuth, the Mauritian Artist provides a 1930s scene depicting the waterfront when motorised transportation hardly existed.
Who acts: Raouf, 1930s scene, motorised transportation · What happens: provide, depict, motoris, exist · To what, where: 1930s scene, waterfront
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 (Raouf, 1930s scene, motorised transportation), 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 | Raouf | Raouf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 provides | nsubj |
| 2 | Oderuth | Oderuth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Raouf | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 provides | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Artist | det |
| 5 | Mauritian | mauritian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Artist | amod |
| 6 | Artist | Artist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 provides | nsubj |
| 7 | provides | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scene | det |
| 9 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 scene | compound |
| 10 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 provides | obj |
| 11 | depicting | depict | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 scene | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waterfront | det |
| 13 | waterfront | waterfront | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 depicting | obj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 existed | advmod |
| 15 | motorised | motoris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 transportation | amod |
| 16 | transportation | transportation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 existed | nsubj |
| 17 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 18 existed | advmod |
| 18 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 depicting | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 provides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | present | Raouf | a 1930s scene | the Mauritian Artist nsubj | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scene=Theme | |||
| 2 | depict | gerund | a 1930s scene not said here | the waterfront | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent waterfront=Theme | ||||
| 3 | motoris | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | exist | past | motorised transportation | hardly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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