Tuvalu, sentence 228
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.
Tuvalu is also affected by perigean spring tide events which raise the sea level higher than a normal high tide.
Who acts: perigean spring tide events · What happens: affect, raise · To what, where: Tuvalu, sea level
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 (perigean spring tide events), 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 | Tuvalu | tuvalu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 affected | aux:pass |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 affected | advmod |
| 4 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 events | case |
| 6 | perigean | perigean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 events | amod |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 events | compound |
| 8 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 events | compound |
| 9 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 affected | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 raise | nsubj |
| 11 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 events | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 level | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 level | compound |
| 14 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raise | obj |
| 15 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 raise | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 tide | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tide | det |
| 18 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tide | amod |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tide | amod |
| 20 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 higher | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | present · passive | perigean spring tide events | Tuvalu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | raise | present | perigean spring tide events | the sea level | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=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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