Bern, sentence 155
From Wikipedia, «Bern», 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 four bears are now kept in an open-air enclosure nearby, and two other young bears, a present by the Russian president, are kept in Dählhölzli zoo.
What happens: keep · To what, where: four bears, air enclosure, two other young bears, Dählhölzli zoo
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bern». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 bears | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bears | nummod |
| 3 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux:pass |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 kept | advmod |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 enclosure | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 enclosure | det |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 air | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 open | punct |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enclosure | compound |
| 12 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obl |
| 13 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 12 enclosure | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 kept | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bears | nummod |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bears | amod |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bears | amod |
| 19 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 present | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 present | det |
| 22 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bears | nmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 president | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 president | det |
| 25 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 president | amod |
| 26 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 present | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bears | punct |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 kept | aux:pass |
| 29 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 kept | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 zoo | case |
| 31 | Dählhölzli | Dählhölzli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 zoo | compound |
| 32 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kept | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | the four bears | a air enclosure | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in enclosure=Location | |||
| 2 | keep | present · passive | two other young bears a present by the Russian president | Dählhölzli zoo | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in zoo=Location |
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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