Bucharest, sentence 171
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.
As stated by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life in cities around the world, Bucharest occupied the 94th place in 2001 and slipped lower, to the 108th place in 2009 and the 107th place in 2010.
Who acts: Bucharest · What happens: state, occupy, slip · To what, where: cities, 94th place, 2001
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 (Bucharest), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 2 stated | mark |
| 2 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 occupied | advcl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 surveys | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surveys | det |
| 5 | Mercer | Mercer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 surveys | compound |
| 6 | international | international | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 surveys | amod |
| 7 | surveys | survey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stated | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 quality | case |
| 9 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surveys | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quality | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cities | case |
| 13 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stated | obl |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cities | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stated | punct |
| 18 | Bucharest | Bucharest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 occupied | nsubj |
| 19 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 21 | 94th | 94th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 occupied | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 2001 | case |
| 24 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 occupied | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 slipped | cc |
| 26 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 occupied | conj |
| 27 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 slipped | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 place | punct |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 place | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 place | det |
| 31 | 108th | 108th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 32 place | amod |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 slipped | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 2009 | case |
| 34 | 2009 | 2009 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 place | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 place | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 place | det |
| 37 | 107th | 107th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 38 place | amod |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 2009 | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 2010 | case |
| 40 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 place | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | participle | Bucharest not said here | cities around the world | by the Mercer international surveys for quality of life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | occupy | past | Bucharest | the 94th place | 2001 | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | slip | past | Bucharest not said here | to the 108th place in 2009 and the 107th place in 2010; low property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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