Wellington, sentence 469
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.
There were 196,911 males and 204,936 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.961 males per female.
Who acts: 196,911 males · What happens: be, give · To what, where: sex ratio
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 (196,911 males), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 196,911 | 196,911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 males | nummod |
| 4 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 females | cc |
| 6 | 204,936 | 204,936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 females | nummod |
| 7 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 males | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 were | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ratio | det |
| 11 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ratio | compound |
| 12 | ratio | ratio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 males | case |
| 14 | 0.961 | 0.961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 males | nummod |
| 15 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ratio | nmod |
| 16 | per | per | ADP | _ | 17 female | case |
| 17 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 males | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | 196,911 males and 204,936 females | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | 196,911 males and 204,936 females not said here | a sex ratio of 0.961 males per female | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ratio=Theme |
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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