Berlin, sentence 100
From Wikipedia, «Berlin», 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 Berlin airlift, conducted by the three western Allies, overcame this blockade by supplying food and other supplies to the city from June 1948 to May 1949.
Who acts: Berlin airlift · What happens: conduct, overcome, supply · To what, where: Berlin airlift, blockade, food, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Berlin». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Berlin airlift), 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 airlift | det |
| 2 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 airlift | compound |
| 3 | airlift | airlift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overcame | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 conducted | punct |
| 5 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 airlift | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Allies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Allies | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Allies | nummod |
| 9 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Allies | amod |
| 10 | Allies | ally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 conducted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 airlift | punct |
| 12 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 blockade | det |
| 14 | blockade | blockade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overcame | obj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 supplying | mark |
| 16 | supplying | supply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 overcame | advcl |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supplying | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 supplies | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 supplies | amod |
| 20 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 food | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 city | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supplying | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 June | case |
| 25 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 overcame | obl |
| 26 | 1948 | 1948 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 June | flat |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 May | case |
| 28 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 overcame | obl |
| 29 | 1949 | 1949 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 May | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 overcame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | participle | the Berlin airlift not said here | by the three western Allies | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by ally=Destination | ||||
| 2 | overcome | past | the Berlin airlift | this blockade | june; may | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blockade=Theme | |||
| 3 | supply | gerund | the Berlin airlift not said here | food and other supplies | the city | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to city=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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