São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 64
From Wikipedia, «São Tomé and Príncipe», 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.
With the support of de Chaves, the two men petitioned the king to be declared free, and the request was approved.
Who acts: two men · What happens: petition, declare, approve, support · To what, where: king, request, de Chaves
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé and Príncipe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 support | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 support | det |
| 3 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 petitioned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Chaves | case |
| 5 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chaves | compound |
| 6 | Chaves | Chave | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 support | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 support | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 petitioned | nsubj |
| 11 | petitioned | petition | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 petitioned | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 declared | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 declared | aux:pass |
| 16 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 petitioned | advcl |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 declared | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 approved | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 approved | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 request | det |
| 21 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 approved | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 approved | aux:pass |
| 23 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 petitioned | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 petitioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | petition | past | the two men | the king | with the support of de Chaves | tree rules | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | the two men not said here | free property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | ||||
| 3 | approve | past · passive | the request | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | support | de Chaves | nom support «act 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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