Bulgaria, sentence 140
From Wikipedia, «Bulgaria», 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 Thracian Plain is roughly triangular, beginning southeast of Sofia and broadening as it reaches the Black Sea coast.
Who acts: Thracian Plain, Southeast · What happens: be, begin, broaden, reach · To what, where: southeast, Sea coast
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bulgaria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thracian Plain, Southeast), 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 Plain | det |
| 2 | Thracian | Thracian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Plain | compound |
| 3 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 triangular | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 triangular | cop |
| 5 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 6 triangular | advmod |
| 6 | triangular | triangular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beginning | punct |
| 8 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 triangular | conj |
| 9 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sofia | case |
| 11 | Sofia | Sofia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 southeast | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 broadening | cc |
| 13 | broadening | broaden | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 beginning | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 reaches | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reaches | nsubj |
| 16 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 broadening | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coast | det |
| 18 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sea | compound |
| 19 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 coast | compound |
| 20 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reaches | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 triangular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Thracian Plain | roughly, triangular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | gerund | the Thracian Plain not said here | southeast of Sofia | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent southeast=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | broaden | gerund | the Thracian Plain not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | reach | present | Southeast | the Sea coast | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coast=Theme |
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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