Berlin, sentence 62
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.
This was a successful attempt to centralise the capital in the very far-flung state, and it was the first time the city began to grow.
Who acts: This, percent, city · What happens: be, centralise, fling, begin, grow · To what, where: successful attempt, capital, far flung state, first time
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 (This, percent, city), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 attempt | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attempt | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 attempt | det |
| 4 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 attempt | amod |
| 5 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 centralise | mark |
| 7 | centralise | centralise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 attempt | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 capital | det |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centralise | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 state | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 state | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 state | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 far | punct |
| 15 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 state | amod |
| 16 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centralise | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 time | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 time | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attempt | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 began | nsubj |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 grow | mark |
| 28 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 began | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a successful attempt and the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | centralise | to-infinitive | the capital | the far flung state | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fling | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | percent | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | the city | the first time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grow | to-infinitive | the city not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.
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