Suva, sentence 20
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.
Its area remained one square mile until 1952, when Suva annexed the Muanikau and Samabula wards, expanding its territory to 13 km2.
Who acts: area, Suva, Muanikau · What happens: remain, annex, ward, expand · To what, where: one square mile, territory
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: who acts (area, Suva, Muanikau), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 area | nmod:poss |
| 2 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 mile | nummod |
| 5 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mile | amod |
| 6 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obj |
| 7 | until | until | ADP | _ | 8 1952 | case |
| 8 | 1952 | 1952 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 remained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 annexed | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 annexed | advmod |
| 11 | Suva | Suva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 annexed | nsubj |
| 12 | annexed | annex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Muanikau | det |
| 14 | Muanikau | Muanikau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wards | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Samabula | cc |
| 16 | Samabula | Samabula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Muanikau | conj |
| 17 | wards | ward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 annexed | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 expanding | punct |
| 19 | expanding | expand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 wards | advcl |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 territory | nmod:poss |
| 21 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 expanding | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 13 | case |
| 23 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 expanding | obl |
| 24 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 13 | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Ordinance's area | one square mile | until 1952 | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Attribute | |||
| 2 | annex | past | Suva | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ward | present | the Muanikau and Samabula | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | expand | gerund | the Muanikau and Samabula not said here | Ordinance's territory | to 13 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent territory=Patient |
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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