Tuvalu, sentence 153
From Wikipedia, «Tuvalu», 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.
These alterations to the reef and shoreline resulted in changes to wave patterns, with less sand accumulating to form the beaches, compared to former times.
Who acts: less sand · What happens: result, wave, accumulate, form, compare · To what, where: alterations, changes, patterns, beaches
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tuvalu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (less sand), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 alterations | det |
| 2 | alterations | alteration | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 reef | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reef | det |
| 5 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 alterations | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shoreline | cc |
| 7 | shoreline | shoreline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reef | conj |
| 8 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 alterations | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 changes | case |
| 10 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 resulted | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wave | mark |
| 12 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resulted | advcl |
| 13 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sand | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sand | case |
| 16 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 sand | amod |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wave | obl |
| 18 | accumulating | accumulate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sand | acl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 form | mark |
| 20 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 accumulating | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beaches | det |
| 22 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 form | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 compared | punct |
| 24 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 beaches | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 times | case |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 times | amod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 compared | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 alterations | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | participle | this alterations to the reef and shoreline not said here | changes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in change=Location | ||||
| 2 | wave | to-infinitive | patterns | with less sand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | ||||
| 3 | accumulate | gerund | less sand not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | form | to-infinitive | less sand not said here | the beaches | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beach=Theme | ||||
| 5 | compare | participle | the beaches not said here | time | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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