Bucharest, sentence 167
From Wikipedia, «Bucharest», 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.
Confidence tricks were common in the 1990s, especially in regards to tourists, but the frequency of these incidents has since declined.
Who acts: Confidence tricks · What happens: be, decline · To what, where: 1990s, frequency
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bucharest». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Confidence tricks), 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 | Confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tricks | compound |
| 2 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 common | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 common | cop |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1990s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1990s | det |
| 7 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 common | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 regards | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 regards | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 regards | case |
| 11 | regards | regards | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 1990s | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tourists | case |
| 13 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 regards | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 declined | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 declined | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 frequency | det |
| 17 | frequency | frequency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 declined | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 incidents | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 incidents | det |
| 20 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 frequency | nmod |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 declined | aux |
| 22 | since | since | ADV | _ | 23 declined | advmod |
| 23 | declined | decline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 common | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Confidence tricks | the 1990s and regards to tourists | common property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | decline | present · perfect · passive | the frequency of this incidents | since property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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