Port Vila, sentence 36
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.
Port Vila is Vanuatu's most important harbour and the center of the country's trade.
Who acts: Port, country · What happens: be, trade · To what, where: important harbour
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 (Port, country), 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 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 harbour | nsubj |
| 2 | Vila | Vila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Port | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 harbour | cop |
| 4 | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 harbour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Vanuatu | case |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 important | advmod |
| 7 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harbour | amod |
| 8 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 center | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 center | det |
| 11 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harbour | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 trade | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trade | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 country | case |
| 16 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 center | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 harbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Port | Vanuatu's important harbour and the center of the country's trade | Vanuatu nmod:poss; the center of the country's trade conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trade | the country | nom trade «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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