São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 183
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.
Since 2013, China has invested in some road and seaport projects but investments have been stalling in recent years.
Who acts: China, projects · What happens: invest, stall · To what, where: road
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 (China, projects), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 2 2013 | case |
| 2 | 2013 | 2013 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 invested | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2013 | punct |
| 4 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 invested | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invested | aux |
| 6 | invested | invest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invested | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seaport | cc |
| 11 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 road | conj |
| 12 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stalling | nsubj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 investments | cc |
| 14 | investments | investment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 projects | conj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stalling | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 stalling | aux |
| 17 | stalling | stall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 road | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stalling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invest | present · perfect | China | some road and seaport | since 2013 | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stall | present · perfect · progressive | projects but investments | some road and seaport not said here | year | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Eventuality |
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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