Tanzania, sentence 449
From Wikipedia, «Tanzania», 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.
Most people live on the northern border or the coast, with much of the remainder of the country being sparsely populated.
Who acts: Most people · What happens: live, populate · To what, where: northern border, much
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tanzania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most people), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 border | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 border | det |
| 6 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 border | amod |
| 7 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 coast | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coast | det |
| 10 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 border | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 populated | punct |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 populated | mark |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 populated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 remainder | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 remainder | det |
| 16 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 much | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remainder | nmod |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 populated | aux:pass |
| 21 | sparsely | sparsely | ADV | _ | 22 populated | advmod |
| 22 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 live | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Most people | the northern border or the coast | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on border=Location | ||||
| 2 | populate | gerund · passive | much of the remainder of the country | sparsely property | 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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