Vanuatu, sentence 19
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.
The modified name was put forward by a subcommittee on national symbols, which felt that Vanuaaku was too closely associated with the VP, and has been credited to Tom Tipolomata of Tongoa.
Who acts: subcommittee, national symbols · What happens: put forward, feel, associate, credit · To what, where: modified name, national symbols, Vanuaaku, Tom
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 (subcommittee, national symbols), 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 | 3 name | det |
| 2 | modified | modified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 subcommittee | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 subcommittee | det |
| 9 | subcommittee | subcommittee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 symbols | case |
| 11 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 symbols | amod |
| 12 | symbols | symbol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 symbols | acl:relcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 associated | mark |
| 17 | Vanuaaku | Vanuaaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 associated | aux:pass |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 closely | advmod |
| 20 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 21 associated | advmod |
| 21 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 felt | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 VP | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 VP | det |
| 24 | VP | vp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 associated | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 credited | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 credited | cc |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 credited | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 credited | aux:pass |
| 29 | credited | credit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 put | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Tom | case |
| 31 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 credited | obl |
| 32 | Tipolomata | Tipolomata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Tom | flat |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Tongoa | case |
| 34 | Tongoa | Tongoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Tom | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put forward | past · passive | a subcommittee | the modified name | national symbols | forward property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on symbol=Destination | ||
| 2 | feel | past | national symbols | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | associate | past · passive | Vanuaaku | with the VP; closely property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with vp=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | credit | present · perfect · passive | a subcommittee not said here | Tom of Tongoa | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to tom=Recipient |
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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