Bloemfontein, sentence 256
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.
Old: The oldest of the three cemeteries, dating from 1871, is simply a tiny fenced-off area of a public cemetery near the city centre.
What happens: date, fence off, be · To what, where: 1871, tiny fenced area
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: 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 oldest | amod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Old | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oldest | det |
| 4 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 area | nmod:poss |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cemeteries | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cemeteries | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cemeteries | nummod |
| 8 | cemeteries | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 oldest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dating | punct |
| 10 | dating | date | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 oldest | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 1871 | case |
| 12 | 1871 | 1871 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 dating | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 oldest | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 area | cop |
| 15 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 21 area | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 area | det |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 area | amod |
| 18 | fenced | fence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 area | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 off | punct |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 fenced | compound:prt |
| 21 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cemetery | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cemetery | det |
| 24 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cemetery | amod |
| 25 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 area | nmod |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 centre | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 centre | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 centre | compound |
| 29 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cemetery | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 area | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | date | gerund | 1871 | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fence off | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Old oldest of the three cemeteries's tiny fenced area | of a public cemetery near the city centre; simply property | tree rules |
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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