Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 21
From Wikipedia, «Saint Kitts and Nevis», 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.
It is not known who chose this name for the island, but it is thought that white clouds which usually wreathe the top of Nevis Peak reminded someone of the miracle.
Who acts: that, top · What happens: not know, choose, think, cloud, wreathe, remind · To what, where: name, white clouds, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Saint Kitts and Nevis». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, top), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 chose | nsubj |
| 6 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chose | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | aux:pass |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 known | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 clouds | nsubj |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clouds | amod |
| 19 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 wreathe | obj |
| 21 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 22 wreathe | advmod |
| 22 | wreathe | wreathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reminded | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Peak | case |
| 26 | Nevis | Nevis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Peak | compound |
| 27 | Peak | Peak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 top | nmod |
| 28 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wreathe | ccomp |
| 29 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 reminded | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 miracle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 miracle | det |
| 32 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 someone | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · passive | name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | choose | past | this name | for the island; who nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for island=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · passive | name | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cloud | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wreathe | present | white clouds | usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | remind speech: other | past | the top of Nevis Peak | someone of the miracle | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
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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