Rwanda, sentence 449
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 potato, thought to have been introduced to Rwanda by German and Belgian colonialists, is very popular.
Who acts: German colonialists, potato · What happens: think, introduce, be · To what, where: potato, Rwanda · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (German colonialists, potato), 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 potato | det |
| 2 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 popular | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 potato | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 introduced | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 introduced | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 introduced | aux:pass |
| 8 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Rwanda | case |
| 10 | Rwanda | Rwanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 introduced | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 colonialists | case |
| 12 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 colonialists | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Belgian | cc |
| 14 | Belgian | Belgian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 German | conj |
| 15 | colonialists | colonialist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 introduced | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 potato | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 popular | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 popular | advmod |
| 19 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 popular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle | the potato not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | introduce | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | German colonialists | Rwanda | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to rwanda=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the potato | popular property | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Rwanda», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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