Wellington, sentence 401
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.
It also provides port services for the Cook Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island, operated by state-owned Interislander and private Bluebridge.
Who acts: infrastructure · What happens: provide, operate, own · To what, where: port services, Strait ferries
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 (infrastructure), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 provides | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 provides | advmod |
| 3 | provides | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 services | compound |
| 5 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 provides | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ferries | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ferries | det |
| 8 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Strait | compound |
| 9 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ferries | compound |
| 10 | ferries | ferry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 provides | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Picton | case |
| 12 | Picton | Picton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ferries | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Island | det |
| 15 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Island | compound |
| 16 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Picton | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 operated | punct |
| 18 | operated | operate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ferries | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Interislander | case |
| 20 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 owned | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 state | punct |
| 22 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Interislander | amod |
| 23 | Interislander | interislander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 operated | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Bluebridge | cc |
| 25 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Bluebridge | amod |
| 26 | Bluebridge | Bluebridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Interislander | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 provides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | present | infrastructure | port services | for the Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition service=Theme for ferry=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | operate | participle | the Strait ferries to Picton in the South Island not said here | by owned Interislander and private Bluebridge | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | own | participle | state compound | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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