Samoa, sentence 273
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.
Samoa's road network consists mainly of paved highways connecting key towns and villages on both Upolu and Savai'i islands.
Who acts: road network, paved highways · What happens: consist, pave, connect · To what, where: key towns
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 (road network, paved highways), 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 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 network | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Samoa | case |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 network | compound |
| 4 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consists | nsubj |
| 5 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 5 consists | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 highways | case |
| 8 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 highways | amod |
| 9 | highways | highway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 consists | obl |
| 10 | connecting | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 highways | acl |
| 11 | key | key | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 towns | amod |
| 12 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 connecting | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 villages | cc |
| 14 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 towns | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 islands | case |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 islands | det |
| 17 | Upolu | Upolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 islands | compound |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Savai'i | cc |
| 19 | Savai'i | Savai'i | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Upolu | conj |
| 20 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 connecting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | Samoa's road network | of paved highways; mainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pave | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | connect | gerund | paved highways not said here | key towns and villages | on both Upolu islands | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent town=Patient on island=Co-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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