Tuvalu, sentence 174
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.
As low-lying islands lacking a surrounding shallow shelf, the communities of Tuvalu are especially susceptible to changes in sea level and undissipated storms.
Who acts: lying islands · What happens: lie, lack, surround, be · To what, where: surrounding shallow shelf
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 (lying islands), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 islands | case |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lying | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 low | punct |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 islands | amod |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 susceptible | obl |
| 6 | lacking | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 islands | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shelf | det |
| 8 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 shelf | amod |
| 9 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shelf | amod |
| 10 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lacking | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 communities | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 communities | det |
| 13 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shelf | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Tuvalu | case |
| 15 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 communities | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 susceptible | cop |
| 17 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 18 susceptible | advmod |
| 18 | susceptible | susceptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 changes | case |
| 20 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 susceptible | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 level | case |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 level | compound |
| 23 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changes | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 storms | cc |
| 25 | undissipated | undissipated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 storms | amod |
| 26 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 changes | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 susceptible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lack | gerund | lying islands not said here | a surrounding shallow shelf and the communities of Tuvalu | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | as lying islands; to changes in sea level and undissipated storms; especially, susceptible 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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