Tuvalu, sentence 359
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.
The Congregational Christian Church of Tuvalu, which is part of the Calvinist tradition, is the state church of Tuvalu; although in practice this merely entitles it to "the privilege of performing special services on major national events".
Who acts: Congregational Christian Church, privilege · What happens: be, entitle, perform · To what, where: part, state church, church, practice, special services, major national events
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 (Congregational Christian Church, privilege), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Church | det |
| 2 | Congregational | Congregational | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Church | compound |
| 3 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Church | compound |
| 4 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 church | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Tuvalu | case |
| 6 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Church | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 part | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 part | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 part | cop |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Church | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tradition | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tradition | det |
| 13 | Calvinist | Calvinist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tradition | compound |
| 14 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Church | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 church | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 church | det |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 church | compound |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Tuvalu | case |
| 21 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 church | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 entitles | punct |
| 23 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 28 entitles | mark |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 practice | case |
| 25 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entitles | obl |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 practice | nsubj |
| 27 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 28 entitles | advmod |
| 28 | entitles | entitle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 church | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 entitles | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 privilege | mark |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 privilege | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 privilege | det |
| 33 | privilege | privilege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 entitles | advcl |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 performing | mark |
| 35 | performing | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 privilege | acl |
| 36 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 services | amod |
| 37 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 performing | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 events | case |
| 39 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 events | amod |
| 40 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 events | amod |
| 41 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 services | nmod |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 events | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 church | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Congregational Christian Church of Tuvalu | part | of the Calvinist tradition | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the Congregational Christian Church of Tuvalu | the state church | of Tuvalu | tree rules | |||
| 3 | entitle | present | church | practice this | the privilege advcl; merely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | perform in a quote | gerund | the privilege not said here | special services | major national events | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Tuvalu», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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