Saint Kitts and Nevis, sentence 89
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.
The land narrows considerably in the south-east, forming a much flatter peninsula which contains the largest body of water, the Great Salt Pond.
Who acts: land, flatter peninsula · What happens: narrow, form, contain · To what, where: south east, flatter peninsula, largest body
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 (land, flatter peninsula), 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 land | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 narrows | nsubj |
| 3 | narrows | narrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 3 narrows | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 east | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 east | det |
| 7 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 east | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 south | punct |
| 9 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 narrows | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forming | punct |
| 11 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 narrows | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 peninsula | det |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 flatter | advmod |
| 14 | flatter | flat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 peninsula | amod |
| 15 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forming | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 contains | nsubj |
| 17 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 peninsula | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 19 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 body | amod |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contains | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Pond | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Pond | det |
| 25 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Pond | amod |
| 26 | Salt | Salt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Pond | compound |
| 27 | Pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 narrows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | narrow | present | the land | the south east | considerably property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | form | gerund | the land not said here | a flatter peninsula | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peninsula=Theme | ||||
| 3 | contain | present | a flatter peninsula | the largest body of water and the Great Salt Pond | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot body=Theme |
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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