Suriname, sentence 15
From Wikipedia, «Suriname», 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.
Suriname is the only independent state outside Europe where Dutch is the official and prevailing language of government, business, media, and education; an estimated 60% of the population speaks Dutch as a native language.
Who acts: Suriname, Dutch · What happens: be, prevail, estimate, speak · To what, where: only independent state, official prevailing language · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suriname». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suriname, Dutch), 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 | Suriname | suriname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 state | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 state | amod |
| 5 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 state | amod |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 8 Europe | case |
| 8 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 state | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 language | advmod |
| 10 | Dutch | Dutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 language | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 language | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 language | det |
| 13 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 language | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prevailing | cc |
| 15 | prevailing | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 language | amod |
| 16 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 government | case |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 language | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 business | punct |
| 20 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 language | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 media | punct |
| 22 | media | media | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 business | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 education | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 education | cc |
| 25 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 speaks | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 % | det |
| 28 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 % | amod |
| 29 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 % | nummod |
| 30 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 34 speaks | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 population | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 population | det |
| 33 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 % | nmod |
| 34 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 state | conj |
| 35 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 speaks | xcomp |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 language | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 language | det |
| 38 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 language | amod |
| 39 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 speaks | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Suriname | the only independent state and education | outside Europe; education conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prevail | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Dutch | the official prevailing language | of government; business and media parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 4 | estimate | participle | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | present | as a native language; dutch property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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