Bern, sentence 161
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.
One of the more interesting fountains is the Kindlifresserbrunnen (Bernese German: Child Eater Fountain), which is claimed to represent a Jew, the Greek god Chronos, or a Fastnacht figure meant to frighten disobedient children.
Who acts: One, Fastnacht figure · What happens: be, child, claim, represent, mean, frighten · To what, where: Kindlifresserbrunnen, Eater Fountain, Jew, disobedient children
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: who acts (One, Fastnacht figure), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Kindlifresserbrunnen | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fountains | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fountains | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 interesting | advmod |
| 5 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fountains | amod |
| 6 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Kindlifresserbrunnen | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kindlifresserbrunnen | det |
| 9 | Kindlifresserbrunnen | Kindlifresserbrunnen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 German | punct |
| 11 | Bernese | Bernese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 German | compound |
| 12 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Kindlifresserbrunnen | appos |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Child | punct |
| 14 | Child | child | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 German | conj |
| 15 | Eater | Eater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fountain | compound |
| 16 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Child | obj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 German | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 claimed | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 claimed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 claimed | aux:pass |
| 21 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Kindlifresserbrunnen | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 represent | mark |
| 23 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 claimed | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Jew | det |
| 25 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 represent | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 god | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 god | det |
| 28 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 god | amod |
| 29 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Jew | appos |
| 30 | Chronos | Chronos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 god | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 meant | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 meant | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 figure | det |
| 34 | Fastnacht | Fastnacht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 figure | compound |
| 35 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 meant | nsubj |
| 36 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 claimed | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 frighten | mark |
| 38 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 meant | xcomp |
| 39 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 children | amod |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 frighten | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kindlifresserbrunnen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | One of the interesting fountains | the Kindlifresserbrunnen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | child | infinitive | One of the interesting fountains not said here | Eater Fountain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | present · passive | the Kindlifresserbrunnen | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | represent | to-infinitive | a Jew | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jew=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mean | past | a Fastnacht figure | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | frighten not said to happen | to-infinitive | a Fastnacht figure not said here | disobedient children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
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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