Vanuatu, sentence 338
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.
Although manganese mining halted in c. 1980, there was an agreement in 2006 to export manganese already mined but not yet exported.
Who acts: agreement, manganese · What happens: halt, be, export, mine, not export · To what, where: manganese mining, c.
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 (agreement, manganese), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 mining | case |
| 2 | manganese | manganese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mining | amod |
| 3 | mining | mining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | obl |
| 4 | halted | halt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mining | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 c. | case |
| 6 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 halted | obl |
| 7 | 1980 | 1980 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 c. | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mining | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 agreement | det |
| 12 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2006 | case |
| 14 | 2006 | 2006 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 agreement | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 export | mark |
| 16 | export | export | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agreement | acl |
| 17 | manganese | manganese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mined | nsubj |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 mined | advmod |
| 19 | mined | mine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 export | ccomp |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 exported | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 exported | advmod |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 exported | advmod |
| 23 | exported | export | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 mined | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | participle | manganese mining not said here | c. | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a agreement in 2006 | there | although manganese mining | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | export | to-infinitive | a agreement in 2006 not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mine | past | manganese | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not export | participle | manganese not said here | yet | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Vanuatu», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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