Samoa, sentence 93
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.
In accordance with the Mau's non-violent philosophy, the newly elected leader, High Chief Tupua Tamasese Lealofi, led his fellow uniformed Mau in a peaceful demonstration in downtown Apia on 28 December 1929.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: elect, lead, uniform · To what, where: accordance, Mau, peaceful demonstration
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 (fellow), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 accordance | case |
| 2 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 philosophy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mau | det |
| 5 | Mau | Mau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 philosophy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Mau | case |
| 7 | non-violent | non-violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 philosophy | amod |
| 8 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accordance | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leader | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leader | det |
| 11 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 12 elected | advmod |
| 12 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 leader | amod |
| 13 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 philosophy | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Chief | punct |
| 15 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Chief | amod |
| 16 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 philosophy | appos |
| 17 | Tupua | Tupua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Chief | flat |
| 18 | Tamasese | Tamasese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Chief | flat |
| 19 | Lealofi | Lealofi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Chief | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 accordance | punct |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 uniformed | nsubj |
| 24 | uniformed | uniform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 led | ccomp |
| 25 | Mau | Mau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 uniformed | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 demonstration | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 demonstration | det |
| 28 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 demonstration | amod |
| 29 | demonstration | demonstration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 uniformed | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 downtown | case |
| 31 | downtown | downtown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 demonstration | nmod |
| 32 | Apia | Apia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 downtown | appos |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 28 | case |
| 34 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 uniformed | obl |
| 35 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 28 | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | 1929 | 1929 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 28 | flat |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | participle | newly property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | accordance with the Mau's non-violent philosophy the elected leader | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | uniform | past | Mau's fellow | Mau | a peaceful demonstration in downtown | on 28 December | tree rules |
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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