Venezuela, sentence 599
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.
The German community speaks their native language, while the people of Colonia Tovar speak mostly an Alemannic dialect of German called alemán coloniero.
Who acts: German community, people · What happens: speak, call · To what, where: native language, Alemannic dialect, German alemán coloniero · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (German community, people), 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 | 3 community | det |
| 2 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 community | amod |
| 3 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaks | nsubj |
| 4 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 language | nmod:poss |
| 6 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 language | amod |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaks | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 speak | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 speak | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Colonia | case |
| 13 | Colonia | Colonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 14 | Tovar | Tovar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Colonia | flat |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaks | conj |
| 16 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 19 dialect | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dialect | det |
| 18 | Alemannic | alemannic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dialect | amod |
| 19 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 coloniero | case |
| 21 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coloniero | amod |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 coloniero | acl |
| 23 | alemán | alemán | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coloniero | compound |
| 24 | coloniero | coloniero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dialect | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the German community | communities's native language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | the people of Colonia | a Alemannic dialect of German alemán coloniero | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | German alemán coloniero not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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.
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