São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 18
From Wikipedia, «São Tomé and Príncipe», 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.
Portuguese navigators explored the islands and decided that they would be good locations for bases to trade with the mainland.
Who acts: Portuguese navigators, navigators · What happens: explore, decide, be, trade · To what, where: islands, good locations · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «São Tomé and Príncipe». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portuguese navigators, navigators), 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 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 navigators | amod |
| 2 | navigators | navigator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 explored | nsubj |
| 3 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 islands | det |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 explored | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 decided | cc |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 explored | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 locations | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 locations | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 locations | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 locations | cop |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 locations | amod |
| 13 | locations | location | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decided | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 bases | case |
| 15 | bases | basis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 locations | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 trade | mark |
| 17 | trade | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mainland | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mainland | det |
| 20 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trade | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explore | past | Portuguese navigators | the islands | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent island=Location | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | Portuguese navigators not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | would | navigators = navigator | good locations | for bases | tree rules | |||
| 4 | trade | to-infinitive | Portuguese navigators not said here | with the mainland | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mainland=Co-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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