Vanuatu, sentence 25
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.
Several ancient burial sites have been excavated, most notably Teouma on Éfaté, which has a large ancient cemetery containing the remains of 94 individuals.
Who acts: Teouma, large ancient cemetery · What happens: excavate, have, contain · To what, where: Several ancient burial sites, large ancient cemetery, remains
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 (Teouma, large ancient cemetery), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sites | amod |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sites | amod |
| 3 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sites | compound |
| 4 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 excavated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 excavated | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 excavated | aux:pass |
| 7 | excavated | excavate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 notably | advmod |
| 10 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 16 has | advmod |
| 11 | Teouma | Teouma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 has | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Éfaté | case |
| 13 | Éfaté | Éfaté | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Teouma | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 excavated | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cemetery | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cemetery | amod |
| 19 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cemetery | amod |
| 20 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 21 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 cemetery | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 remains | det |
| 23 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 containing | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 individuals | case |
| 25 | 94 | 94 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 individuals | nummod |
| 26 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 remains | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 excavated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excavate | present · perfect · passive | Several ancient burial sites | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Teouma on Éfaté | a large ancient cemetery | which nsubj; notably property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cemetery=Patient | |||
| 3 | contain | gerund | a large ancient cemetery not said here | the remains of 94 individuals | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot remains=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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