The Gambia, sentence 130
From Wikipedia, «The Gambia», 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.
Pygmy hippopotamuses and crocodiles may be found in the river system, while common African species such as chimpanzees, baboons, antelopes, and warthogs are also present.
Who acts: warthogs · What happens: find, be · To what, where: Pygmy hippopotamuses, river system
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Gambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warthogs), 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 | Pygmy | pygmy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hippopotamuses | amod |
| 2 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crocodiles | cc |
| 4 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hippopotamuses | conj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 system | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 system | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 system | compound |
| 11 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 species | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 species | mark |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 species | amod |
| 15 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 species | amod |
| 16 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 chimpanzees | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | chimpanzees | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 species | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 baboons | punct |
| 21 | baboons | baboon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chimpanzees | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 antelopes | punct |
| 23 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chimpanzees | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 present | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 present | cc |
| 26 | warthogs | warthog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 present | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 present | cop |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 present | advmod |
| 29 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 found | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | may · passive | Pygmy hippopotamuses and crocodiles | the river system | common African species such chimpanzees and baboons and antelopes obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | warthogs | present 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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