Tuvalu, sentence 550
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.
In 2020, the government of Tuvalu purchased a landing barge, intended for transport of dangerous goods and building material from the capital to the outer islands.
Who acts: government · What happens: purchase, intend · To what, where: landing barge, 2020
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 (government), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2020 | case |
| 2 | 2020 | 2020 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 purchased | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2020 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 government | det |
| 5 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 purchased | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Tuvalu | case |
| 7 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 government | nmod |
| 8 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 barge | det |
| 10 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 barge | compound |
| 11 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 purchased | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 intended | punct |
| 13 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 barge | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 transport | case |
| 15 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 intended | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 goods | case |
| 17 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 goods | amod |
| 18 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 transport | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 material | cc |
| 20 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 material | compound |
| 21 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 transport | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 capital | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 capital | det |
| 24 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 material | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 islands | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 islands | det |
| 27 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 islands | amod |
| 28 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 intended | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 purchased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | past | the government of Tuvalu | a landing barge | 2020 | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset barge=Theme | |||
| 2 | intend | participle | a landing barge not said here | for transport of dangerous goods and building material from the capital; to the outer islands | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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