Tuvalu, sentence 23
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.
During pre-European-contact times, there was frequent canoe voyaging between the nearer islands including Samoa and Tonga.
Who acts: frequent canoe · What happens: be, voyage
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 (frequent canoe), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | pre-European-contact | pre-european-contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | compound |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 was | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 canoe | amod |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | voyaging | voyage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 canoe | acl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 islands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 islands | det |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 islands | amod |
| 13 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 voyaging | obl |
| 14 | including | including | ADP | _ | 15 Samoa | case |
| 15 | Samoa | Samoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 islands | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Tonga | cc |
| 17 | Tonga | Tonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Samoa | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | frequent canoe | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | voyage | gerund | frequent canoe not said here | between the nearer islands including Samoa and Tonga | 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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