Austria, sentence 121
From Wikipedia, «Austria», 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.
His successor Kurt Schuschnigg acknowledged the fact that Austria was a "German state" and he also believed that Austrians were "better Germans" but he wished that Austria would remain independent.
Who acts: successor, fact, Austria · What happens: acknowledge, be, believe, wish, remain · To what, where: German state, Austrians, better Germans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Austria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (successor, fact, Austria), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 successor | nmod:poss |
| 2 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 3 | Kurt | Kurt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 successor | appos |
| 4 | Schuschnigg | Schuschnigg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kurt | flat |
| 5 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fact | det |
| 7 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 state | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 Austria | mark |
| 9 | Austria | Austria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fact | appos |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 state | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 state | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 state | punct |
| 13 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 state | amod |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acknowledged | ccomp |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 state | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 believed | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 believed | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 believed | advmod |
| 19 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 acknowledged | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 Austrians | mark |
| 21 | Austrians | Austrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 believed | obj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Germans | cop |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Germans | punct |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 Germans | amod |
| 25 | Germans | German | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Austrians | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Austrians | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 wished | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wished | nsubj |
| 29 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 believed | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 remain | mark |
| 31 | Austria | Austria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 remain | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 remain | aux |
| 33 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 wished | ccomp |
| 34 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 remain | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 acknowledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acknowledge | past | constitution's successor | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the fact | a German state | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | past | successor | Austrians and better Germans | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer austrian=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | successor not said here | better Germans | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish | past | successor | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | remain | would | Austria | independent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Austria», 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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