Rwanda, sentence 105
From Wikipedia, «Rwanda», 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.
The court succeeded in clearing the backlog of genocide cases, but was criticised by human rights groups as not meeting legal fair standard.
Who acts: court, rights groups · What happens: succeed, clear, criticise, not meet · To what, where: backlog, legal fair standard
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rwanda». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, rights groups), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 court | det |
| 2 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | nsubj |
| 3 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 clearing | mark |
| 5 | clearing | clear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 succeeded | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 backlog | det |
| 7 | backlog | backlog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clearing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cases | case |
| 9 | genocide | genocide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cases | compound |
| 10 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 backlog | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 criticised | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 criticised | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 criticised | aux:pass |
| 14 | criticised | criticise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 succeeded | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 groups | case |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rights | amod |
| 17 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 groups | compound |
| 18 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 criticised | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 meeting | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 meeting | advmod |
| 21 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 criticised | advcl |
| 22 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 standard | amod |
| 23 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 standard | amod |
| 24 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meeting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | the court | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | clear | gerund | the court not said here | the backlog of genocide cases | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent backlog=Source | ||||
| 3 | criticise | past · passive | rights groups | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not meet | gerund | rights groups not said here | legal fair standard | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Co-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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