Tuvalu, sentence 183
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.
The degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relative to the islands of Tuvalu was reflected in the conclusions made in 2002 from the available data.
Who acts: degree · What happens: relative, reflect, make · To what, where: change relative, conclusions, 2002
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 (degree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 degree | det |
| 2 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relative | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 uncertainty | case |
| 4 | uncertainty | uncertainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 degree | nmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 estimates | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | estimates | estimate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 relative | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 change | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 level | compound |
| 10 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 change | compound |
| 11 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relative | compound |
| 12 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 islands | det |
| 15 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 relative | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Tuvalu | case |
| 17 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 islands | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reflected | aux:pass |
| 19 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 conclusions | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 conclusions | det |
| 22 | conclusions | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reflected | obl |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 conclusions | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 2002 | case |
| 25 | 2002 | 2002 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 made | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 data | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 data | det |
| 28 | available | available | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 data | amod |
| 29 | data | data | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relative | the degree of uncertainty | as estimates; to the islands of Tuvalu | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reflect | past · passive | change relative | the conclusions | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | the conclusions not said here | 2002 | from the available data | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from data=Material |
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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