Tuvalu, sentence 396
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 traditional buildings of Tuvalu used plants and trees from the native broadleaf forest, including timber from pouka (Hernandia peltata); ngia or ingia bush (Pemphis acidula); miro (Thespesia populnea); Tonga (Rhizophora mucronata); fau or fo fafini, or woman's fibre tree (Hibiscus tiliaceus).
Who acts: traditional buildings · What happens: use, include · To what, where: plants, native broadleaf forest
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 (traditional buildings), 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 | 3 buildings | det |
| 2 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 buildings | amod |
| 3 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Tuvalu | case |
| 5 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 buildings | nmod |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 used | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trees | cc |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plants | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 12 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forest | amod |
| 13 | broadleaf | broadleaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forest | compound |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 timber | punct |
| 16 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 timber | case |
| 17 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forest | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 pouka | case |
| 19 | pouka | pouka | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 timber | nmod |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 peltata | punct |
| 21 | Hernandia | Hernandia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 peltata | compound |
| 22 | peltata | peltata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 timber | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 peltata | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ngia | punct |
| 25 | ngia | ngia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forest | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 bush | cc |
| 27 | ingia | ingia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bush | compound |
| 28 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ngia | conj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 acidula | punct |
| 30 | Pemphis | Pemphis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 acidula | compound |
| 31 | acidula | acidula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bush | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 acidula | punct |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 miro | punct |
| 34 | miro | miro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | parataxis |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 populnea | punct |
| 36 | Thespesia | Thespesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 populnea | compound |
| 37 | populnea | populnea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 miro | appos |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 populnea | punct |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 Tonga | punct |
| 40 | Tonga | Tonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 miro | nmod |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 Rhizophora | punct |
| 42 | Rhizophora | Rhizophora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Tonga | appos |
| 43 | mucronata | mucronata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Rhizophora | flat |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Rhizophora | punct |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 fau | punct |
| 46 | fau | fau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 miro | conj |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 fafini | cc |
| 48 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 49 fafini | case |
| 49 | fafini | fafini | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 fau | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 tree | punct |
| 51 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 55 tree | cc |
| 52 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 tree | nmod:poss |
| 53 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 52 woman | case |
| 54 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 tree | compound |
| 55 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 fafini | obj |
| 56 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 58 tiliaceus | punct |
| 57 | Hibiscus | Hibiscus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 tiliaceus | compound |
| 58 | tiliaceus | tiliaceus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 tree | appos |
| 59 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 58 tiliaceus | punct |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the traditional buildings of Tuvalu | plants and trees | the native broadleaf forest and timber from pouka and ngia or ingia bush | miro Tonga and fau parataxis | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | ||
| 2 | include | gerund | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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