Andorra la Vella, sentence 15

From Wikipedia, «Andorra la Vella», 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.

Andorra la Vella was, during this period, the capital of a largely isolated and feudal lordship within the Principality of Catalonia, which retained its existence due to this principle of co-sovereignty.

Who acts: Andorra, Catalonia, Principality · What happens: be, retain, exist · To what, where: existence

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Andorra la Vella». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andorra, Catalonia, Principality), 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	Andorra	Andorra	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 period	nsubj
2	la	la	X	_	1 Andorra	flat:foreign
3	Vella	Vella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 la	goeswith
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 period	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 period	punct
6	during	during	ADP	_	8 period	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 period	det
8	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 capital	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 capital	det
11	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 period	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	18 lordship	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lordship	det
14	largely	largely	ADV	_	15 isolated	advmod
15	isolated	isolated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lordship	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feudal	cc
17	feudal	feudal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 isolated	conj
18	lordship	lordship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 capital	nmod
19	within	within	ADP	_	21 Principality	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Principality	det
21	Principality	principality	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 period	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Catalonia	case
23	Catalonia	Catalonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Principality	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 retained	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 retained	nsubj
26	retained	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Catalonia	acl:relcl
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 existence	nmod:poss
28	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 retained	obj
29	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	32 principle	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 due	fixed
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 principle	det
32	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 retained	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 co-sovereignty	case
34	co-sovereignty	co-sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 principle	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 period	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Andorra		during this period	within the Principality of Catalonia; the capital of a isolated lordship appos	tree rules
2	retain	past	Catalonia	Principality's existence		due this principle of co-sovereignty	tree rules
3	exist		Principality				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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Andorra la Vella, sentence 15