Wellington, sentence 39
From Wikipedia, «Wellington», 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 city's location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait leaves it vulnerable to strong gales, leading to the nickname of "Windy Wellington".
Who acts: location · What happens: leave, lead, nickname · To what, where: mouth, Windy Wellington
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Wellington». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (location), 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 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 location | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 city | case |
| 4 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaves | nsubj |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 location | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouth | det |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Strait | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Strait | det |
| 11 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Strait | amod |
| 12 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Strait | compound |
| 13 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod |
| 14 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leaves | obj |
| 16 | vulnerable | vulnerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leaves | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 gales | case |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gales | amod |
| 19 | gales | gale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 vulnerable | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leading | punct |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 leaves | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 nickname | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nickname | det |
| 24 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leading | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Wellington | case |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Wellington | punct |
| 27 | Windy | Windy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Wellington | compound |
| 28 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 nickname | nmod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Wellington | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | the city's location | mouth | vulnerable property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | the city's location not said here | to the nickname of Windy Wellington | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to nickname=Patient | ||||
| 3 | nickname | Windy Wellington | nom nickname «communication transitive»: of=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.
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