Vanuatu, sentence 174
From Wikipedia, «Vanuatu», 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.
Edward Natapei of the VP became prime minister in 2001 and went on to win the 2002 Vanuatuan general election.
Who acts: Edward Natapei · What happens: become, go on, win · To what, where: prime minister, 2001, 2002 Vanuatuan general election
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vanuatu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edward Natapei), 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 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Natapei | compound |
| 2 | Natapei | Natapei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 VP | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 VP | det |
| 5 | VP | vp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Natapei | nmod |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | prime | prime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minister | amod |
| 8 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 2001 | case |
| 10 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 became | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 win | mark |
| 15 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 election | det |
| 17 | 2002 | 2002 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 election | compound |
| 18 | Vanuatuan | Vanuatuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 election | compound |
| 19 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 election | amod |
| 20 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 win | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Edward Natapei of the VP | prime minister | in 2001 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2001=Result | |||
| 2 | go on | past | Edward Natapei of the VP not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | Edward Natapei of the VP not said here | the 2002 Vanuatuan general election | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
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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