Suriname, sentence 175
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.
Elections were held on 25 May 2015, and the National Assembly again elected Dési Bouterse as president.
Who acts: National Assembly · What happens: hold, elect · To what, where: Elections, 25, Dési Bouterse
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 (National Assembly), 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 | Elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | aux:pass |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 25 | case |
| 5 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 held | obl |
| 6 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 2015 | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | 2015 | 2015 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 elected | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 elected | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Assembly | det |
| 11 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Assembly | amod |
| 12 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 elected | nsubj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 elected | advmod |
| 14 | elected | elect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 15 | Dési | Dési | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bouterse | compound |
| 16 | Bouterse | Bouterse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 elected | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 president | case |
| 18 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 elected | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | Elections | 25 2015 May | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on 25=Location | ||||
| 2 | elect | past | the National Assembly | Dési Bouterse | again | as president | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bouterse=Theme as president=Attribute |
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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