Vanuatu, sentence 29
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 stories about Roy Mata come from local oral tradition and are consistent with centuries-old evidence uncovered at archaeological sites.
Who acts: stories · What happens: come, be, uncover · To what, where: local oral tradition, old evidence, archaeological sites
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 (stories), 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 | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 Roy | case |
| 4 | Roy | Roy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stories | nmod |
| 5 | Mata | Mata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Roy | flat |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tradition | case |
| 8 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tradition | amod |
| 9 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tradition | amod |
| 10 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 consistent | cc |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 consistent | cop |
| 13 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 come | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 centuries | case |
| 15 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 consistent | obl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 centuries | punct |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evidence | amod |
| 18 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 centuries | conj |
| 19 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 evidence | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 sites | case |
| 21 | archaeological | archaeological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sites | amod |
| 22 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 uncovered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the stories about Roy | local oral tradition | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tradition=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the stories about Roy not said here | century | consistent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | uncover | participle | old evidence not said here | archaeological sites | tree rules |
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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