Canberra, sentence 186
From Wikipedia, «Canberra», 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.
This was designed so that looking from Capital Hill, the War Memorial stood directly at the foot of Mount Ainslie.
Who acts: looking · What happens: design, look, stand · To what, where: This, foot
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (looking), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 designed | aux:pass |
| 3 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 stood | mark |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 so | fixed |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stood | csubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Hill | case |
| 8 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Hill | compound |
| 9 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Memorial | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Memorial | det |
| 12 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Memorial | compound |
| 13 | Memorial | Memorial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Hill | appos |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 designed | advcl |
| 15 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foot | det |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Mount | case |
| 20 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 foot | nmod |
| 21 | Ainslie | Ainslie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mount | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 designed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | past · passive | This | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | from Capital Hill | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hill=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | looking | the foot of Mount | directly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
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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