Tuvalu, sentence 270
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.
With regard to the judiciary, "the first female Island Court magistrate was appointed to the Island Court in Nanumea in the 1980s and another in Nukulaelae in the early 1990s."
What happens: appoint · To what, where: first female Court magistrate, 1980s
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: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 regard | case |
| 2 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 judiciary | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 judiciary | det |
| 5 | judiciary | judiciary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 regard | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 regard | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 magistrate | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 magistrate | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 magistrate | amod |
| 10 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 magistrate | amod |
| 11 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Court | compound |
| 12 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 magistrate | compound |
| 13 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 appointed | aux:pass |
| 15 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Court | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Court | det |
| 18 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Court | compound |
| 19 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Nanumea | case |
| 21 | Nanumea | Nanumea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Court | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1980s | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 1980s | det |
| 24 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 15 appointed | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 another | cc |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 1980s | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Nukulaelae | case |
| 28 | Nukulaelae | Nukulaelae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 another | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 1990s | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 1990s | det |
| 31 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 1990s | amod |
| 32 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 15 appointed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 appointed | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint in a quote | past · passive | the first female Court magistrate | the 1980s | with regard to the judiciary; to the Island Court in Nanumea; in the early 1990s | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to court=Attribute |
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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