Vanuatu, sentence 64
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 first recorded visit was by the Rose in February 1804, and the last known visit by the New Bedford ship John and Winthrop in 1887.
Who acts: first recorded visit, Bedford ship · What happens: record, be, know, visit
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 (first recorded visit, Bedford ship), 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 | 4 visit | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 visit | amod |
| 3 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 visit | amod |
| 4 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Rose | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Rose | cop |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Rose | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rose | det |
| 8 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 February | case |
| 10 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rose | conj |
| 11 | 1804 | 1804 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 1887 | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 1887 | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 visit | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 visit | amod |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 visit | amod |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 1887 | nsubj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 ship | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 20 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Bedford | amod |
| 21 | Bedford | Bedford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ship | compound |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | nmod |
| 23 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ship | appos |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Winthrop | cc |
| 25 | Winthrop | Winthrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 John | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 1887 | case |
| 27 | 1887 | 1887 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Rose | list |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the first recorded visit | by the Rose and February 1804; 1887 the last known visit by the Bedford ship list | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | visit | the Bedford ship | nom visit «act transitive»: by=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.
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