Suriname, sentence 2
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.
Situated slightly north of the equator, over 90% of its territory is covered by rainforest, the second-highest proportion of forest cover in the world.
Who acts: rainforest · What happens: situate, cover
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 (rainforest), 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 | Situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 3 north | advmod |
| 3 | north | north | ADV | _ | 1 Situated | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 equator | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 equator | det |
| 6 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 north | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covered | punct |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 90 | advmod |
| 9 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 % | nummod |
| 10 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 15 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 territory | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 territory | nmod:poss |
| 13 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 % | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 covered | aux:pass |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Situated | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 rainforest | case |
| 17 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 proportion | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 proportion | det |
| 20 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 proportion | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 highest | punct |
| 22 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 proportion | amod |
| 23 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rainforest | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cover | case |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cover | compound |
| 26 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proportion | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cover | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | participle | north property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cover | present · passive | rainforest | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
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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