Tuvalu, sentence 401
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.
Church and community buildings (maneapa) are usually coated with white paint that is known as lase, which is made by burning a large amount of dead coral with firewood.
What happens: coat, know, lase, make, burn, amount · To what, where: Church, white paint, large amount, dead coral
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 | Church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 buildings | cc |
| 3 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buildings | compound |
| 4 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Church | conj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 maneapa | punct |
| 6 | maneapa | maneapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buildings | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 maneapa | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coated | aux:pass |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 coated | advmod |
| 10 | coated | coat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 paint | case |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paint | amod |
| 13 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coated | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 paint | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 lase | mark |
| 18 | lase | lase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 known | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 paint | acl |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 burning | mark |
| 24 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 made | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 amount | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 amount | amod |
| 27 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 burning | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 coral | case |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 coral | amod |
| 30 | coral | coral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 amount | nmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 firewood | case |
| 32 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coral | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 coated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coat | present · passive | Church and community buildings | with white paint; usually property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with paint=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | white paint | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lase | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | present · passive | white paint | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | a large amount of dead coral with firewood | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent amount=Theme | |||||
| 6 | amount | dead coral with firewood | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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