Tanzania, sentence 541
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.
Tingatinga died in 1972; other artists adopted and developed his style, with the genre now being the most important tourist-oriented style in East Africa.
Who acts: Tingatinga, other artists · What happens: die, adopt, develop, be · To what, where: style, important oriented style, East Africa
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 (Tingatinga, other artists), 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 | Tingatinga | Tingatinga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1972 | case |
| 4 | 1972 | 1972 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 died | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 adopted | punct |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 artists | amod |
| 7 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 adopted | nsubj |
| 8 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 died | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 developed | cc |
| 10 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 adopted | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 style | nmod:poss |
| 12 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 developed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 genre | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 genre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 genre | det |
| 16 | genre | genre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 developed | parataxis |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 style | advmod |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 style | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 style | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 important | advmod |
| 21 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 style | amod |
| 22 | tourist | tourist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 oriented | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 tourist | punct |
| 24 | oriented | oriented | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 style | amod |
| 25 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 developed | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Africa | case |
| 27 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Africa | compound |
| 28 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 style | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Tingatinga | in 1972 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1972=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | adopt | past | other artists | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | develop | past | other artists not said here | Tingatinga's style | the genre parataxis | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Product | |||
| 4 | is a | gerund | the important oriented style | East Africa | now | 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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