Tuvalu, sentence 277
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 maintains close relations with Fiji, New Zealand, Australia (which has maintained a High Commission in Tuvalu since 2018), Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Who acts: Tuvalu · What happens: maintain · To what, where: close relations, Australia
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 (Tuvalu), 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 | 2 maintains | nsubj |
| 2 | maintains | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 relations | amod |
| 4 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 maintains | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Fiji | case |
| 6 | Fiji | Fiji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 relations | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Zealand | punct |
| 8 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Zealand | flat |
| 9 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiji | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Australia | punct |
| 11 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiji | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 maintained | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 maintained | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 maintained | aux |
| 15 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Australia | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Commission | det |
| 17 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Commission | amod |
| 18 | Commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maintained | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Tuvalu | case |
| 20 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Commission | nmod |
| 21 | since | since | ADP | _ | 22 2018 | case |
| 22 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 maintained | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 maintained | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Japan | punct |
| 25 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiji | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Korea | punct |
| 27 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Korea | compound |
| 28 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiji | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Taiwan | punct |
| 30 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiji | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 States | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 States | det |
| 33 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 States | amod |
| 34 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 Fiji | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 America | case |
| 36 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 States | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Kingdom | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Kingdom | det |
| 39 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 40 Kingdom | flat |
| 40 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiji | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Union | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Union | det |
| 43 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Union | compound |
| 44 | Union | Union | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiji | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 maintains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | present | Tuvalu | close relations | with Fiji and Australia and Japan and South Korea and Taiwan and the United Kingdom and the European Union | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent relation=Theme | |||
| 2 | maintain | present · perfect · passive | Australia | since 2018 | a High Commission obj | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme commission=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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