Copenhagen, sentence 150
From Wikipedia, «Copenhagen», 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.
As a result, Copenhagen has become the centre of a larger metropolitan area spanning both nations.
Who acts: Copenhagen, larger metropolitan area · What happens: become, span · To what, where: centre, nations
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Copenhagen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Copenhagen, larger metropolitan area), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 result | punct |
| 5 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 become | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 area | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 area | det |
| 12 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 area | amod |
| 13 | metropolitan | metropolitan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 area | compound |
| 14 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nmod |
| 15 | spanning | span | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 area | acl |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 nations | det |
| 17 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spanning | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · perfect | Copenhagen | the centre of a larger metropolitan area | as a result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | span | gerund | a larger metropolitan area not said here | both nations | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nation=Co-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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