Wellington, sentence 52
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 1840 settlers constructed their first homes at Petone (which they called Britannia for a time) on the flat area at the mouth of the Hutt River.
Who acts: 1840 settlers, settlers · What happens: construct, call · To what, where: first homes, Petone, flat area · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (1840 settlers, settlers), 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 settlers | det |
| 2 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 settlers | nummod |
| 3 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 constructed | nsubj |
| 4 | constructed | construct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 homes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 homes | amod |
| 7 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 constructed | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Petone | case |
| 9 | Petone | Petone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 constructed | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 called | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 constructed | conj |
| 14 | Britannia | Britannia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 area | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 area | det |
| 21 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 area | amod |
| 22 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mouth | det |
| 25 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 area | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 River | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 River | det |
| 28 | Hutt | Hutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 River | compound |
| 29 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mouth | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | past | the 1840 settlers | settlers's first homes | Petone | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Result | |||
| 2 | call | past | settlers = settler | the flat area at the mouth of the Hutt River | time | which obj; Britannia xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
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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