Venezuela, sentence 568
From Wikipedia, «Venezuela», 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.
Slightly more than half of the population claimed to be moreno, a term used throughout Ibero-America that in this case means "dark-skinned" or "brown-skinned", as opposed to having a lighter skin.
Who acts: half, that · What happens: claim, be, use, mean, oppose, have · To what, where: moreno, term, lighter skin
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Venezuela». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, that), 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 | Slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 half | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 2 more | fixed |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 claimed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 population | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 population | det |
| 7 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 half | nmod |
| 8 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 moreno | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 moreno | cop |
| 11 | moreno | moreno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claimed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 term | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 term | det |
| 14 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moreno | appos |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 term | acl |
| 16 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 19 America | case |
| 17 | Ibero | Ibero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 America | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ibero | punct |
| 19 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obl:agent |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 means | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 case | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 case | det |
| 23 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obl |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 term | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 skinned | punct |
| 26 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 skinned | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 dark | punct |
| 28 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 means | ccomp |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 skinned | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 skinned | cc |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 skinned | punct |
| 32 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 skinned | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 brown | punct |
| 34 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 skinned | conj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 skinned | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 opposed | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 opposed | mark |
| 38 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 means | conj |
| 39 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 40 having | mark |
| 40 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 opposed | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 skin | det |
| 42 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 skin | amod |
| 43 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 having | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | half of the population | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | moreno | a term appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | a term not said here | Ibero America obl:agent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | that | in this case | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in case=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | oppose | participle | that not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | have | gerund | that not said here | a lighter skin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
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, «Venezuela», 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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