Tuvalu, sentence 5
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 2022 census determined that Tuvalu had a population of 10,643, making it the 194th most populous country and also the 2nd least populated country in the United Nations, exceeding only Niue and the Vatican City in population.
Who acts: 2022 census, Tuvalu · What happens: determine, have, make, populate, exceed · To what, where: population, Niue
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 (2022 census, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 census | det |
| 2 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 census | nummod |
| 3 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 determined | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 population | det |
| 9 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 10,643 | case |
| 11 | 10,643 | 10,643 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 population | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 had | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 making | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 194th | det |
| 16 | 194th | 194th | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 populous | advmod |
| 18 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 194th | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 country | cc |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 2nd | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 2nd | det |
| 23 | 2nd | 2nd | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 26 country | amod |
| 24 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 populated | advmod |
| 25 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 country | amod |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 194th | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Nations | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Nations | det |
| 29 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 30 Nations | compound |
| 30 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 country | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 exceeding | punct |
| 32 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 making | conj |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 Niue | advmod |
| 34 | Niue | Niue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 exceeding | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 City | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 City | det |
| 37 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 City | compound |
| 38 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Niue | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 population | case |
| 40 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 exceeding | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the 2022 census | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Tuvalu | a population of 10,643 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Tuvalu not said here | population | the 194th and populous country and 2nd populated country in the United Nations obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary 194th=Product | |||
| 4 | populate | participle | least property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | exceed | gerund | Tuvalu not said here | Niue and the Vatican City | in population | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot niue=Theme in population=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.
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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