--- title: Owing to a large amount of tuna fish offal and blood, the waters aro… — Malé · tree and pragmatics description: Owing to a large amount of tuna fish offal and blood, the waters around that sandbank looked like a big pool of blood ("maa ley gandeh": "maa" from the Sanskrit मह "maha", meaning big, and "lē" blood). Who acts: waters, ley gandeh. 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Owing to a large amount of tuna fish offal and blood, the waters around that sandbank looked like a big pool of blood ("maa ley gandeh": "maa" from the Sanskrit मह "maha", meaning big, and "lē" blood). **Who acts:** waters, ley gandeh · **What happens:** owe, look, mean, amount · **To what, where:** large amount, tuna fish offal This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, ley gandeh), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Malé:43 # text = Owing to a large amount of tuna fish offal and blood, the waters around that sandbank looked like a big pool of blood ("maa ley gandeh": "maa" from the Sanskrit मह "maha", meaning big, and "lē" blood). 1 Owing owe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 tuna tuna NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 offal offal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 sandbank sandbank NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 maa maa NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 ley ley NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 gandeh gandeh NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 maa maa NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Sanskrit Sanskrit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 मह मह NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 maha maha NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 44 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 lē lē NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **owe** | gerund | the waters around that sandbank *not said here* | | | | | to a large amount of tuna fish offal and blood *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to amount=Goal | | 2 | **look** | past | the waters around that sandbank | | | | | like a big pool of blood and ley gandeh and maa from the Sanskrit मह; lē blood *parataxis* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | gerund | ley gandeh and maa from the Sanskrit मह *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **amount** | | | tuna fish offal and blood | | | | | nom amount «possession 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Malé», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malé/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malé/44/) - ↑ back to [Malé](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malé/)