Roseau, sentence 63
From Wikipedia, «Roseau», 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.
Elsewhere it is not uncommon to find that a section of the street, sidewalk or the beach has been adapted for makeshift games of cricket or football.
Who acts: it · What happens: not be, find, adapt, section · To what, where: section, street
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Roseau». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | Elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 5 uncommon | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 uncommon | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 uncommon | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 uncommon | advmod |
| 5 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 uncommon | csubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 adapted | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 section | det |
| 10 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adapted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 street | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 street | det |
| 13 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 section | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sidewalk | punct |
| 15 | sidewalk | sidewalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 street | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 beach | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beach | det |
| 18 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 street | conj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 adapted | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 adapted | aux:pass |
| 21 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 find | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 games | case |
| 23 | makeshift | makeshift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 games | compound |
| 24 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 adapted | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cricket | case |
| 26 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 games | nmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 football | cc |
| 28 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cricket | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uncommon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | it | elsewhere, uncommon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | adapt | present · perfect · passive | a section of the street and sidewalk or the beach | for makeshift games of cricket or football | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | section | the street and sidewalk or the beach | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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