United Kingdom, sentence 540
From Wikipedia, «United Kingdom», 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.
Northern Ireland's most popular writer is C. S. Lewis, who was born in Belfast and wrote The Chronicles of Narnia.
Who acts: popular writer · What happens: be, bear, write, chronicle · To what, where: C., Belfast, Chronicles, Narnia
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United Kingdom». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popular writer), 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 | Northern | Northern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ireland | flat |
| 2 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 writer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ireland | case |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 popular | advmod |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 writer | amod |
| 6 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 C. | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 C. | cop |
| 8 | C. | C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 C. | flat |
| 10 | Lewis | Lewis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 C. | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 born | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 C. | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Belfast | case |
| 16 | Belfast | Belfast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 born | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wrote | cc |
| 18 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | conj |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Chronicles | det |
| 20 | Chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wrote | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Narnia | case |
| 22 | Narnia | Narnia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Chronicles | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 C. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Northern Ireland's popular writer | C. | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | C. | Belfast | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | write | past | the Chronicles of Narnia | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chronicle=Theme | |||||
| 4 | chronicle | Narnia | nom chronicle «communication transitive»: of=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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