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title: Endemic birds include Alexander's swift (Apus alexandri), Bourne's h… — Cape Verde · tree and pragmatics
description: Endemic birds include Alexander's swift (Apus alexandri), Bourne's heron (Ardea purpurea bournei), the Raso lark (Alauda razae), the Cape Verde warbler (Acrocephalus brevipennis), and the Iago sparrow (Passer iagoensis). Who acts: Endemic birds. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Cape Verde» with its depend
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# Cape Verde, sentence 139

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From Wikipedia, [«Cape Verde»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Endemic birds include Alexander's swift (Apus alexandri), Bourne's heron (Ardea purpurea bournei), the Raso lark (Alauda razae), the Cape Verde warbler (Acrocephalus brevipennis), and the Iago sparrow (Passer iagoensis).

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**Who acts:** Endemic birds · **What happens:** include · **To what, where:** swift

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Cape Verde». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Endemic birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Cape_Verde:139
# text = Endemic birds include Alexander's swift (Apus alexandri), Bourne's heron (Ardea purpurea bournei), the Raso lark (Alauda razae), the Cape Verde warbler (Acrocephalus brevipennis), and the Iago sparrow (Passer iagoensis).
1	Endemic	Endemic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Apus	Apus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	alexandri	alexandri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Bourne	Bourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	heron	heron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ardea	Ardea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	purpurea	purpurea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bournei	bournei	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Raso	Raso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Alauda	Alauda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	razae	razae	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Verde	Verde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	warbler	warbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Acrocephalus	Acrocephalus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	brevipennis	brevipennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Iago	Iago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Passer	Passer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	iagoensis	iagoensis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | Endemic birds | Alexander's swift and Bourne's heron and the Raso lark and the Verde warbler |  |  |  | the Iago sparrow *obl* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swift=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Cape Verde», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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