Berlin, sentence 118
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.
Berlin's 2001 administrative reform merged several boroughs, reducing their number from 23 to 12.
Who acts: 2001 administrative reform, Berlin · What happens: merge, reduce, reform · To what, where: several boroughs, number, 23
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 (2001 administrative reform, Berlin), 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 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reform | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Berlin | case |
| 3 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 reform | nummod |
| 4 | administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reform | amod |
| 5 | reform | reform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merged | nsubj |
| 6 | merged | merge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boroughs | amod |
| 8 | boroughs | borough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 merged | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reducing | punct |
| 10 | reducing | reduce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 merged | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 number | nmod:poss |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reducing | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 23 | case |
| 14 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 reducing | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 12 | case |
| 16 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 23 | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 merged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | merge | past | Berlin's 2001 administrative reform | several boroughs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent borough=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reduce | gerund | Berlin's 2001 administrative reform not said here | capital's number | 23 to 12 | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=Patient | |||
| 3 | reform | Berlin | nom reform «act transitive»: 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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