Tuvalu, sentence 198
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 project is to dredge sand from the lagoon to construct a platform on Funafuti that is 780 m meters long and 100 m meters wide, giving a total area of approximately 7.8 ha.
Who acts: project, platform, 100 m · What happens: be, construct, meter, give · To what, where: lagoon, platform, Funafuti, total area
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 (project, platform, 100 m), 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 project | det |
| 2 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dredge | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dredge | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 dredge | mark |
| 5 | dredge | dredge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dredge | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 lagoon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lagoon | det |
| 9 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dredge | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 construct | mark |
| 11 | construct | construct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dredge | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 platform | det |
| 13 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 construct | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Funafuti | case |
| 15 | Funafuti | Funafuti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 platform | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 long | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 long | cop |
| 18 | 780 | 780 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 meters | nummod |
| 19 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meters | compound |
| 20 | meters | meter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 long | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 platform | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 meters | cc |
| 23 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 m | nummod |
| 24 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meters | nsubj |
| 25 | meters | meter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 long | conj |
| 26 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 25 meters | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 giving | punct |
| 28 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 meters | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 area | det |
| 30 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 area | amod |
| 31 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 giving | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 7.8 | case |
| 33 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 34 7.8 | advmod |
| 34 | 7.8 | 7.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 area | nmod |
| 35 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 28 giving | discourse |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dredge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the project | the lagoon | sand obj; dredge property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | construct | to-infinitive | the project not said here | a platform | Funafuti | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent platform=Result | |||
| 3 | is | present | a platform | 780 m meters obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meter | present | 100 m | wide property | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | gerund | 100 m not said here | a total area of 7.8 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |
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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