Port Vila, sentence 51
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.
Among Vanuatu's 138 indigenous languages, many are spoken in the capital, as people from rural areas come to live in the city, either temporarily or permanently.
Who acts: people · What happens: speak, come, live · To what, where: many, capital, city · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 6 languages | case |
| 2 | Vanuatu | Vanuatu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 languages | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Vanuatu | case |
| 4 | 138 | 138 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 languages | nummod |
| 5 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 languages | amod |
| 6 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spoken | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 languages | punct |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoken | aux:pass |
| 10 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 capital | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 capital | det |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | nsubj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 areas | case |
| 18 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 areas | amod |
| 19 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 people | nmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoken | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 live | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 temporarily | punct |
| 27 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 28 temporarily | cc:preconj |
| 28 | temporarily | temporarily | ADV | _ | 10 spoken | advmod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 permanently | cc |
| 30 | permanently | permanently | ADV | _ | 28 temporarily | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · passive | many | the capital | among Vanuatu's 138 indigenous languages; temporarily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | present | people from rural areas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | people from rural areas not said here | the city | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
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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