Tuvalu, sentence 68
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.
Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy (Nanumea); Jack Buckland (Niutao); Harry Nitz (Vaitupu); Jack O'Brien (Funafuti); Alfred Restieaux and Emile Fenisot (Nukufetau); and Martin Kleis (Nui).
Who acts: Captain · What happens: identify, follow · To what, where: following traders, Ellice Group
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 (Captain), 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 identified | nsubj |
| 2 | Davis | Davis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Captain | flat |
| 3 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 traders | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 traders | amod |
| 6 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 identified | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Group | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Group | det |
| 9 | Ellice | Ellice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Group | compound |
| 10 | Group | Group | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 traders | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Duffy | punct |
| 12 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duffy | compound |
| 13 | Duffy | Duffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 identified | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nanumea | punct |
| 15 | Nanumea | Nanumea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duffy | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nanumea | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Buckland | punct |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Buckland | compound |
| 19 | Buckland | Buckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duffy | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Niutao | punct |
| 21 | Niutao | Niutao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Buckland | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Niutao | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nitz | punct |
| 24 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Nitz | compound |
| 25 | Nitz | Nitz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duffy | conj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Vaitupu | punct |
| 27 | Vaitupu | Vaitupu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Nitz | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Vaitupu | punct |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 O'Brien | punct |
| 30 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 O'Brien | compound |
| 31 | O'Brien | O'Brien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duffy | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Funafuti | punct |
| 33 | Funafuti | Funafuti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 O'Brien | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Funafuti | punct |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 Restieaux | punct |
| 36 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Restieaux | compound |
| 37 | Restieaux | Restieaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duffy | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Emile | cc |
| 39 | Emile | Emile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Duffy | conj |
| 40 | Fenisot | Fenisot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Emile | flat |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 Nukufetau | punct |
| 42 | Nukufetau | Nukufetau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Emile | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Nukufetau | punct |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 Kleis | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Kleis | cc |
| 46 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Kleis | compound |
| 47 | Kleis | Kleis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 identified | obl |
| 48 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 Nui | punct |
| 49 | Nui | Nui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Kleis | appos |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 Nui | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 identified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | past | Captain | the following traders | the Ellice Group | Edmund Duffy and Jack Buckland and Harry Nitz and Jack O'Brien and Alfred Restieaux and Emile obl; Martin Kleis obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent trader=Theme | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | 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.
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