Berlin, sentence 41
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.
German merchants founded two settlements in today's city center – Berlin (or Alt-Berlin; at the site of today's Nikolaiviertel) and Cölln (on the island in the Spree now known as Museum Island).
Who acts: German merchants · What happens: found, know · To what, where: two settlements, city center, island
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 (German merchants), 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 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 merchants | amod |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 founded | nsubj |
| 3 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 settlements | nummod |
| 5 | settlements | settlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 founded | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 center | case |
| 7 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 center | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 today | case |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 center | compound |
| 10 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| 11 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Berlin | punct |
| 12 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 center | appos |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Alt | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Alt | cc |
| 15 | Alt | Alt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Berlin | appos |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Berlin | punct |
| 17 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Alt | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 site | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 site | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 site | det |
| 21 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Nikolaiviertel | case |
| 23 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Nikolaiviertel | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 today | case |
| 25 | Nikolaiviertel | Nikolaiviertel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 site | nmod |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nikolaiviertel | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Cölln | cc |
| 28 | Cölln | Cölln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Nikolaiviertel | conj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 island | punct |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 island | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 island | det |
| 32 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Nikolaiviertel | appos |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Spree | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Spree | det |
| 35 | Spree | spree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 island | nmod |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 known | advmod |
| 37 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 island | acl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 Island | case |
| 39 | Museum | Museum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Island | compound |
| 40 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 known | obl |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 island | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | German merchants | two settlements | today's city center | at the site of today's Nikolaiviertel and Cölln | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settlement=Patient | ||
| 2 | know | participle | the island in the Spree not said here | now | as Museum Island | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as island=Attribute |
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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