Budapest, sentence 49
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.
At first, it was a military settlement, and gradually the city rose around it, making it the focal point of the city's commercial life.
Who acts: settlement, city · What happens: be, rise, make, point · To what, where: military settlement, settlement, commercial life
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 (settlement, city), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 settlement | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 settlement | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 settlement | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 settlement | det |
| 7 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 settlement | amod |
| 8 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 11 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 14 rose | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 settlement | conj |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rose | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rose | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 making | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 point | det |
| 21 | focal | focal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 point | amod |
| 22 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 city | case |
| 27 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 life | amod |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 point | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 settlement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | settlement | a military settlement | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the city | settlement | gradually property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | the city not said here | settlement | the focal point of the city's commercial life obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary point=Product | |||
| 4 | point | the city's commercial life | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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