Budapest, sentence 37
From Wikipedia, «Budapest», 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.
For while Attila was in the west, his brother crossed the boundaries in his reign, because he named Sicambria after his own name Buda's Castle.
Who acts: Attila, brother · What happens: be, cross, name · To what, where: boundaries
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Budapest». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Attila, brother), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 west | case |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 west | mark |
| 3 | Attila | Attila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 west | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 west | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 west | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 west | det |
| 7 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crossed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 west | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crossed | nsubj |
| 11 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boundaries | det |
| 13 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crossed | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 reign | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 reign | nmod:poss |
| 16 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crossed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 named | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 named | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 named | nsubj |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crossed | parataxis |
| 21 | Sicambria | Sicambria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | xcomp |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 name | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 name | amod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 named | obl |
| 26 | Buda | Buda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Castle | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Buda | case |
| 28 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 name | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Attila | for the west | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross | past | Attila's brother | the boundaries | in Attila's reign | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent boundary=Patient in reign=Topic | |||
| 3 | name | past | Attila | after Attila's own name Buda's Castle | Sicambria xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | name | Attila | 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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