Tuvalu, sentence 222
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.
Of the three northern islands (Nanumanga, Niutao and Nanumea), Nanumanga suffered the most damage, with from 60 to 100 houses flooded, with the waves also causing damage to the health facility.
Who acts: Nanumanga, houses, waves · What happens: suffer, flood, cause · To what, where: most damage, waves, 60, damage
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 (Nanumanga, houses, waves), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 islands | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 islands | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 islands | nummod |
| 4 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 islands | amod |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 suffered | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nanumanga | punct |
| 7 | Nanumanga | Nanumanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 islands | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Niutao | punct |
| 9 | Niutao | Niutao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nanumanga | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Nanumea | cc |
| 11 | Nanumea | Nanumea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nanumanga | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nanumanga | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 islands | punct |
| 14 | Nanumanga | Nanumanga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 suffered | nsubj |
| 15 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 damage | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 damage | amod |
| 18 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suffered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flooded | punct |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 26 flooded | mark |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 60 | case |
| 22 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 flooded | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 100 | case |
| 24 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 60 | nmod |
| 25 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flooded | nsubj |
| 26 | flooded | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffered | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 waves | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 waves | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 waves | det |
| 30 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flooded | obj |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 32 causing | advmod |
| 32 | causing | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 waves | acl |
| 33 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 causing | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 facility | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 facility | det |
| 36 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 facility | compound |
| 37 | facility | facility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 damage | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | Nanumanga | the most damage | of the three northern islands | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer damage=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | flood | past | houses | the waves | 60 to 100 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wave=Patient | |||
| 3 | cause | gerund | the waves not said here | damage | to the health facility | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=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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