Budapest, sentence 8
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.
Budapest opened the first underground transit line on the European continent in 1896, which is still in use as M1 Millennium Underground, and today the fixed-track metro and tram network forms the backbone of Budapest's public transport system and transports 2.2 million people daily, making it a significant urban transit system.
Who acts: Budapest, fixed track metro · What happens: open, be, fix, form, transport, make · To what, where: first underground transit line, European continent, use, backbone, million people
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 (Budapest, fixed track metro), 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 | Budapest | Budapest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 line | amod |
| 5 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 line | amod |
| 6 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 line | compound |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 continent | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 continent | det |
| 10 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 continent | amod |
| 11 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1896 | case |
| 13 | 1896 | 1896 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 opened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 use | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 use | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | cop |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 use | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 use | case |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 1896 | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Millennium | case |
| 21 | M1 | M1 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Millennium | compound |
| 22 | Millennium | Millennium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 use | nmod |
| 23 | Underground | underground | ADV | _ | 19 use | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 forms | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 forms | cc |
| 26 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 forms | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 metro | det |
| 28 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 metro | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 fixed | punct |
| 30 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 metro | compound |
| 31 | metro | metro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 forms | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 network | cc |
| 33 | tram | tram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 network | compound |
| 34 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 metro | conj |
| 35 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 backbone | det |
| 37 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 forms | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 system | case |
| 39 | Budapest | Budapest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 system | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Budapest | case |
| 41 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 system | amod |
| 42 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 system | compound |
| 43 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 backbone | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 transports | cc |
| 45 | transports | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 forms | conj |
| 46 | 2.2 | 2.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 million | compound |
| 47 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 people | nummod |
| 48 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 transports | obj |
| 49 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 45 transports | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 making | punct |
| 51 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 transports | advcl |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 making | obj |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 system | det |
| 54 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 system | amod |
| 55 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 system | amod |
| 56 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 system | compound |
| 57 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 making | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Budapest | the first underground transit line | the European continent | in 1896 and use | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent line=Theme on continent=Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | use | still | as M1 Millennium; which nsubj; underground property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | form | present | the fixed track metro and tram network | the backbone of Budapest's public transport system | today | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location backbone=Theme | |||
| 5 | transport | present | the fixed track metro and tram network not said here | million people | daily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | make | gerund | the fixed track metro and tram network not said here | backbone | a significant urban transit system obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary system=Product |
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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