Seychelles, sentence 261
From Wikipedia, «Seychelles», 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.
Among popular dances are the Sega, with hip-swaying and shuffling of the feet, and the Moutya, a dance dating back to the days of slavery, when it was often used to express strong emotions and discontent.
Who acts: dance · What happens: be, sway, shuffle, date back, use, express · To what, where: Sega, slavery, strong emotions
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 dances | case |
| 2 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dances | amod |
| 3 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Sega | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sega | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sega | det |
| 6 | Sega | Sega | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swaying | punct |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 swaying | mark |
| 9 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swaying | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hip | punct |
| 11 | swaying | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Sega | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shuffling | cc |
| 13 | shuffling | shuffle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 swaying | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feet | det |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shuffling | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Moutya | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Moutya | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Moutya | det |
| 20 | Moutya | Moutya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sega | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dance | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dance | det |
| 23 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Moutya | appos |
| 24 | dating | date | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 dance | acl |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 dating | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 days | det |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dating | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 slavery | case |
| 30 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 days | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 used | punct |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 36 used | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 used | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 used | aux:pass |
| 35 | often | often | ADV | _ | 36 used | advmod |
| 36 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Sega | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 express | mark |
| 38 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 used | advcl |
| 39 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 emotions | amod |
| 40 | emotions | emotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 express | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 discontent | cc |
| 42 | discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 emotions | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sega | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sega and the Moutya | among popular dances; the Moutya conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sway | gerund | hip compound | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shuffle | gerund | of the feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of foot=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | date back | gerund | a dance not said here | day | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | use | past · passive | slavery | often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | express | to-infinitive | strong emotions and discontent | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=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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