Suva, sentence 17
From Wikipedia, «Suva», 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.
E. Pratt of the Royal Engineers was appointed Surveyor-General in 1875 and designed the new capital in Suva, assisted by W. Stephens and Colonel R. W. Stewart.
What happens: appoint, design, assist · To what, where: E. Pratt, 1875, new capital, Suva
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Suva». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pratt | compound |
| 2 | Pratt | Pratt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Engineers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Engineers | det |
| 5 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Engineers | amod |
| 6 | Engineers | Engineer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Pratt | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appointed | aux:pass |
| 8 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Surveyor | Surveyor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 appointed | xcomp |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Surveyor | punct |
| 11 | General | General | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Surveyor | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1875 | case |
| 13 | 1875 | 1875 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 appointed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 designed | cc |
| 15 | designed | design | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appointed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 capital | amod |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 designed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Suva | case |
| 20 | Suva | Suva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 designed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 assisted | punct |
| 22 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 appointed | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Stephens | case |
| 24 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Stephens | compound |
| 25 | Stephens | stephen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 assisted | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 R. | cc |
| 27 | Colonel | Colonel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 R. | compound |
| 28 | R. | R. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 appointed | conj |
| 29 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 R. | flat |
| 30 | Stewart | Stewart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 R. | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | E. Pratt of the Royal Engineers | 1875 | Surveyor xcomp; Colonel R. conj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | design | past | the new capital | Suva | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Result | ||||
| 3 | assist | participle | by W. Stephens | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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