Port Vila, sentence 127
From Wikipedia, «Port Vila», 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.
By the 2010s and 2020s, the UMP vote had begun recovering despite Vanua'aku's vote continuing to drop (reaching a record low of 6.15% in 2020), with the UMP regularly emerging as the party with the most seats in the city.
Who acts: UMP vote, UMP, Vanua'aku · What happens: begin, recover, continue, drop, reach, emerge · To what, where: record low
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Port Vila». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UMP vote, UMP, Vanua'aku), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 2010s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 2010s | det |
| 3 | 2010s | 2010 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 11 begun | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 2020s | cc |
| 5 | 2020s | 2020 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 2010s | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 2010s | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vote | det |
| 8 | UMP | ump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vote | compound |
| 9 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begun | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 begun | aux |
| 11 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | recovering | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 begun | xcomp |
| 13 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 16 vote | case |
| 14 | Vanua'aku | Vanua'aku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 vote | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Vanua'aku | case |
| 16 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recovering | obl |
| 17 | continuing | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 recovering | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 drop | mark |
| 19 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 continuing | xcomp |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 reaching | punct |
| 21 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 drop | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 low | det |
| 23 | record | record | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 low | amod |
| 24 | low | low | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reaching | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 % | case |
| 26 | 6.15 | 6.15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 % | nummod |
| 27 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 24 low | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 2020 | case |
| 29 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 % | nmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 reaching | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 UMP | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 UMP | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 UMP | det |
| 34 | UMP | ump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begun | parataxis |
| 35 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 36 emerging | advmod |
| 36 | emerging | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 UMP | acl |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 party | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 party | det |
| 39 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 emerging | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 seats | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 seats | det |
| 42 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 seats | amod |
| 43 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 party | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 city | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 city | det |
| 46 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 seats | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · perfect | the UMP vote | by the 2010s and 2020s; the UMP parataxis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | recover | gerund | the UMP vote not said here | despite Vanua'aku's vote | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | continue | gerund | the UMP vote not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | drop | to-infinitive | the UMP vote not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reach | gerund | the UMP vote not said here | a record low | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent low=Theme | ||||
| 6 | emerge | gerund | the UMP not said here | as the party with the most seats in the city; regularly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | vote | Vanua'aku | nom vote «act transitive»: poss=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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