Seychelles, sentence 54
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.
The Seychelles president, who is head of state and head of government, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term of office.
Who acts: Seychelles president, popular vote · What happens: be, elect, term · To what, where: head, Seychelles president, office
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 (Seychelles president, popular vote), 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 president | det |
| 2 | Seychelles | Seychelles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 president | compound |
| 3 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 head | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 head | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 head | cop |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 president | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 head | cc |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 state | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 government | case |
| 13 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 president | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 elected | aux:pass |
| 16 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 vote | case |
| 18 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 vote | amod |
| 19 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 elected | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 term | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 term | det |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 year | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 five | punct |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 term | compound |
| 25 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 elected | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 office | case |
| 27 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 term | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Seychelles president | head | of state and head of government | tree rules | |||
| 2 | elect | present · passive | popular vote | the Seychelles president | for a year term of office | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | term | office | nom term «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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