Port Vila, sentence 13
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.
In the autumn of 2004, an archaeological expedition known as Teouma discovered a burial site of 25 tombs containing three dozen skeletons of members of the Lapita culture.
Who acts: archaeological expedition, 25 tombs · What happens: know, discover, contain · To what, where: archaeological expedition, burial site, dozen skeletons
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 (archaeological expedition, 25 tombs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 autumn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 autumn | det |
| 3 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 2004 | case |
| 5 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 autumn | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 autumn | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 expedition | det |
| 8 | archaeological | archaeological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 expedition | amod |
| 9 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | nsubj |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 expedition | acl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Teouma | case |
| 12 | Teouma | Teouma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 known | obl |
| 13 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 site | det |
| 15 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 site | compound |
| 16 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tombs | case |
| 18 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 tombs | nummod |
| 19 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 site | nmod |
| 20 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 tombs | acl |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 dozen | compound |
| 22 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 skeletons | nummod |
| 23 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 containing | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 members | case |
| 25 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 skeletons | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 culture | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 culture | det |
| 28 | Lapita | Lapita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 culture | compound |
| 29 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 members | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | a archaeological expedition not said here | as Teouma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as teouma=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | a archaeological expedition | a burial site of 25 tombs | autumn | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent site=Topic | |||
| 3 | contain | gerund | 25 tombs not said here | dozen skeletons of members of the Lapita culture | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skeleton=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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