Suriname, sentence 275
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.
Tafelberg Mountain in the centre of the country is surrounded by its own reserve – the Tafelberg Nature Reserve – around the source of the Saramacca River, as is the Voltzberg Nature Reserve further north on the Coppename River at Raleighvallen.
Who acts: own reserve · What happens: surround, be · To what, where: Tafelberg Mountain
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 (own reserve), 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 | Tafelberg | Tafelberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mountain | compound |
| 2 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 centre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 centre | det |
| 5 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mountain | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centre | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 10 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 reserve | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 reserve | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reserve | amod |
| 14 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 15 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Reserve | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Reserve | det |
| 17 | Tafelberg | Tafelberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nature | compound |
| 18 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Reserve | compound |
| 19 | Reserve | Reserve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reserve | nmod |
| 20 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 source | punct |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 source | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 source | det |
| 23 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 River | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 River | det |
| 26 | Saramacca | Saramacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 River | compound |
| 27 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 source | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Reserve | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 Reserve | case |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Reserve | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Reserve | det |
| 32 | Voltzberg | Voltzberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Reserve | compound |
| 33 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Reserve | compound |
| 34 | Reserve | Reserve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 35 | further | further | ADV | _ | 36 north | advmod |
| 36 | north | north | ADV | _ | 34 Reserve | advmod |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 River | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 River | det |
| 39 | Coppename | Coppename | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 River | compound |
| 40 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 north | obl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 Raleighvallen | case |
| 42 | Raleighvallen | Raleighvallen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 River | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | present · passive | country's own reserve the Nature Reserve | Tafelberg Mountain in the centre of the country | the source of the Saramacca River obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | as the Voltzberg Nature Reserve; north property | tree rules |
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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