São Tomé and Príncipe, sentence 278
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 natural population increase is about 4,000 people per year.
Who acts: natural population increase · What happens: be · To what, where: 4,000 people
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 (natural population increase), 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 | 4 increase | det |
| 2 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 increase | amod |
| 3 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 increase | compound |
| 4 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 4,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 people | nummod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | per | per | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the natural population increase | 4,000 people | year | tree rules |
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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