Samoa, sentence 291
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.
Since 2017, Article 1 of the Samoan Constitution states that "Samoa is a Christian nation founded of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit".
Who acts: Article, Samoa · What happens: state, be, found, article · To what, where: Christian nation, Samoan Constitution · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Article, Samoa), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 2 2017 | case |
| 2 | 2017 | 2017 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 states | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Article | punct |
| 4 | Article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 states | nsubj |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Article | flat |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Constitution | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Constitution | det |
| 8 | Samoan | Samoan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Constitution | compound |
| 9 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Article | nmod |
| 10 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 nation | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 nation | punct |
| 13 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 nation | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 nation | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 nation | det |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nation | amod |
| 17 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 states | ccomp |
| 18 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 nation | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 God | case |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 founded | obl:agent |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Father | det |
| 22 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 God | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Son | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Son | det |
| 25 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Father | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Spirit | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Spirit | det |
| 28 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Spirit | flat |
| 29 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Father | conj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Father | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 states | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present | Article of the Samoan Constitution | since 2017 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Samoa | a Christian nation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | found in a quote | participle | a Christian nation not said here | God obl:agent | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | article | the Samoan Constitution | nom article «communication 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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