São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 19
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.
The dates of European arrival are sometimes given as 21 December (St Thomas's Day) 1471, for São Tomé; and 17 January (St Antony's Day) 1472, for Príncipe, though other sources cite different years around that time.
Who acts: other sources · What happens: give, cite · To what, where: dates
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 (other sources), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dates | det |
| 2 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 arrival | case |
| 4 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arrival | amod |
| 5 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dates | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 given | advmod |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 21 | case |
| 10 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 given | obl |
| 11 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Day | punct |
| 13 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Day | flat |
| 14 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Day | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Thomas | case |
| 16 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 December | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Day | punct |
| 18 | 1471 | 1471 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 21 | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 São | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 São | case |
| 21 | São | São | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 22 | Tomé | Tomé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 São | flat |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Day | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Day | cc |
| 25 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 January | nummod |
| 26 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Day | nsubj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Day | punct |
| 28 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Antony | compound |
| 29 | Antony | Antony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Day | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Antony | case |
| 31 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Day | punct |
| 33 | 1472 | 1472 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Day | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Príncipe | punct |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 Príncipe | case |
| 36 | Príncipe | Príncipe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Day | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cite | punct |
| 38 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 41 cite | mark |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 sources | amod |
| 40 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 cite | nsubj |
| 41 | cite | cite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | conj |
| 42 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 years | amod |
| 43 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 cite | obj |
| 44 | around | around | ADP | _ | 46 time | case |
| 45 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 time | det |
| 46 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cite | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the dates of European arrival | St Antony's Day 17 January and Príncipe | as 21 December; for São; sometimes property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for são=Asset | |||
| 2 | cite | present | other sources | time; year | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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