Tuvalu, sentence 565
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.
Air Tuvalu was a proposed national airline, expected to commence operations in October 2023, but this did not happen.
Who acts: Air Tuvalu, proposed national airline, this · What happens: propose, be, expect, commence, not happen · To what, where: proposed national airline, operations
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 (Air Tuvalu, proposed national airline, this), 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 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tuvalu | compound |
| 2 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 airline | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 airline | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 airline | det |
| 5 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 airline | amod |
| 6 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 airline | amod |
| 7 | airline | airline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expected | punct |
| 9 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 airline | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 commence | mark |
| 11 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 expected | xcomp |
| 12 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 commence | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 October | case |
| 14 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 commence | obl |
| 15 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 October | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happen | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 happen | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 happen | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happen | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 happen | advmod |
| 21 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 airline | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 airline | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Air Tuvalu | a proposed national airline | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expect | participle | a proposed national airline not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | commence not said to happen | to-infinitive | a proposed national airline not said here | operations | october | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | not happen | past · do-support | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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