Bern, sentence 75
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.
It is composed of five councillors (Gemeinderat/-rätin, conseiller/conseillère municipal(e)), each presiding over a directorate (de: Direktion, fr: direction) comprising several departments and bureaus.
Who acts: each, de · What happens: compose, preside, comprise · To what, where: Council, Gemeinderat, directorate, several departments
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 (each, de), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 composed | aux:pass |
| 3 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 councillors | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 councillors | nummod |
| 6 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 composed | obl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gemeinderat | punct |
| 8 | Gemeinderat | Gemeinderat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 councillors | appos |
| 9 | / | / | SYM | _ | 11 rätin | cc |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rätin | punct |
| 11 | rätin | rätin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Gemeinderat | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 municipal | punct |
| 13 | conseiller/conseillère | conseiller/conseillère | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 municipal | compound |
| 14 | municipal | municipal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Gemeinderat | appos |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 e | punct |
| 16 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 municipal | appos |
| 17 | )) | )) | PUNCT | _ | 16 e | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 presiding | punct |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 presiding | nsubj |
| 20 | presiding | preside | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Gemeinderat | acl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 directorate | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 directorate | det |
| 23 | directorate | directorate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 presiding | obl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 de | punct |
| 25 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 directorate | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Direktion | punct |
| 27 | Direktion | direktion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 de | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fr | punct |
| 29 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Direktion | conj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 direction | punct |
| 31 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Direktion | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 direction | punct |
| 33 | comprising | comprise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 de | acl |
| 34 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 departments | amod |
| 35 | departments | department | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 comprising | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bureaus | cc |
| 37 | bureaus | bureau | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 departments | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | present · passive | Council | of five councillors | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | preside | gerund | each | Gemeinderat / rätin not said here | a directorate and de and Direktion and fr | tree rules | |||
| 3 | comprise | gerund | de and Direktion and fr not said here | several departments and bureaus | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme department=Pivot |
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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