Port Moresby, sentence 36
From Wikipedia, «Port Moresby», 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.
Unknown to him, Erskine was also on his way to the island.
Who acts: Erskine · What happens: be · To what, where: Unknown way
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Moresby». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Erskine), 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 | Unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Unknown | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unknown | punct |
| 5 | Erskine | Erskine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 way | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Erskine | Lord's Unknown way | to the island; Lord nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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