Bucharest, sentence 248
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.
The huge number of cars registered in the city forced the Romanian Auto Registry to switch to 3-digit numbers on registration plates in 2010.
Who acts: huge number, Romanian Auto · What happens: register, force, switch · To what, where: cars, city, Romanian Auto, registration plates
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 (huge number, Romanian Auto), 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 | 3 number | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forced | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cars | case |
| 5 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | registered | register | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cars | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 registered | obl |
| 10 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Auto | det |
| 12 | Romanian | Romanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Auto | compound |
| 13 | Auto | Auto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 forced | obj |
| 14 | Registry | Registry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Auto | flat |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 switch | mark |
| 16 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forced | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 numbers | case |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 digit | nummod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 3 | punct |
| 20 | digit | digit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 numbers | compound |
| 21 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 switch | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 plates | case |
| 23 | registration | registration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plates | compound |
| 24 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 switch | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 2010 | case |
| 26 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 switch | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | register | participle | cars not said here | the city | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | force | past | the huge number of cars | the Romanian Auto | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent auto=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | switch | to-infinitive | the Romanian Auto not said here | registration plates | to digit numbers result; in 2010 | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to number=Result |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Bucharest», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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