Bloemfontein, sentence 119
From Wikipedia, «Bloemfontein», 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 first rose festival occurred in 1976, when council members decided that hosting such a festival was appropriate, given the area's name.
Who acts: first, council members, hosting, area · What happens: rise, occur, decide, host, be, give · To what, where: festival, 1976, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bloemfontein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, council members, hosting, area), 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 | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obj |
| 5 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 festival | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1976 | case |
| 7 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 occurred | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 decided | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 decided | advmod |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 members | compound |
| 11 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 decided | nsubj |
| 12 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 appropriate | mark |
| 14 | hosting | host | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 appropriate | csubj |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 festival | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 festival | det |
| 17 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hosting | obj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 appropriate | cop |
| 19 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 decided | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 given | punct |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 appropriate | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 area | det |
| 23 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 area | case |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the first | festival | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location festival=Theme | ||||
| 2 | occur | participle | festival not said here | 1976 | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1976=Location | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | council members | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | host | gerund | such festival | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | is | past | hosting | appropriate property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | give | participle | hosting not said here | the area's name | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 7 | name | the area | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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