Samoa, sentence 149
From Wikipedia, «Samoa», 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 prime minister's choices for the 12 cabinet positions are appointed by the head of state, subject to the continuing confidence of the legislative assembly.
Who acts: head · What happens: appoint, continue, confide · To what, where: choices, legislative assembly
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Samoa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | 3 minister | det |
| 2 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minister | amod |
| 3 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choices | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 minister | case |
| 5 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 positions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 positions | det |
| 8 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 positions | nummod |
| 9 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 positions | compound |
| 10 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 choices | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 appointed | aux:pass |
| 12 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appointed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 state | case |
| 17 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 subject | punct |
| 19 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 confidence | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 confidence | det |
| 22 | continuing | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 confidence | amod |
| 23 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appointed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 assembly | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 assembly | det |
| 26 | legislative | legislative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 assembly | amod |
| 27 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 confidence | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | present · passive | the head of state and subject | the prime minister's choices for the 12 cabinet positions | to the continuing confidence of the legislative assembly | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to confidence=Attribute | |||
| 2 | continue | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | confide | the legislative assembly | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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