Ukraine, sentence 541
From Wikipedia, «Ukraine», 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 most striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music is the wide use of minor modes or keys which incorporate augmented second intervals.
Who acts: striking general characteristic, minor modes · What happens: strike, be, incorporate, augment · To what, where: wide use, augmented second intervals
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ukraine». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (striking general characteristic, minor modes), 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 | 5 characteristic | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 striking | advmod |
| 3 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 characteristic | amod |
| 4 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 characteristic | amod |
| 5 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 music | case |
| 7 | authentic | authentic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 music | amod |
| 8 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 music | amod |
| 9 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 music | amod |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 music | compound |
| 11 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 characteristic | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 use | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 use | det |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 use | amod |
| 15 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 modes | case |
| 17 | minor | minor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 modes | amod |
| 18 | modes | mode | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 keys | cc |
| 20 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 modes | conj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 incorporate | nsubj |
| 22 | incorporate | incorporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 modes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | augmented | augment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 intervals | amod |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 intervals | amod |
| 25 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 incorporate | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the striking general characteristic of authentic ethnic Ukrainian folk music | the wide use | of minor modes or keys | tree rules | |||
| 3 | incorporate | present | minor modes or keys | augmented second intervals | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Patient | ||||
| 4 | augment | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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