Tuvalu, sentence 440
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.
Outrigger canoes from Nui were constructed with an indirect type of outrigger attachment and the hull is double-ended, with no distinct bow and stern.
Who acts: hull · What happens: construct, be, type · To what, where: Outrigger canoes, outrigger attachment
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 (hull), 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 | Outrigger | outrigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 canoes | compound |
| 2 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 constructed | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Nui | case |
| 4 | Nui | Nui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 canoes | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 constructed | aux:pass |
| 6 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 type | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 type | det |
| 9 | indirect | indirect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 type | amod |
| 10 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 constructed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 attachment | case |
| 12 | outrigger | outrigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attachment | compound |
| 13 | attachment | attachment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 type | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ended | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hull | det |
| 16 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ended | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ended | cop |
| 18 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ended | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ended | punct |
| 20 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 type | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bow | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 bow | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 bow | det |
| 24 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bow | amod |
| 25 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 constructed | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stern | cc |
| 27 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bow | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | past · passive | Outrigger canoes from Nui | with a indirect type of outrigger attachment; no distinct bow and stern parataxis | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with type=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the hull | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | type | outrigger attachment | nom type «cognition 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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