Freetown, sentence 161
From Wikipedia, «Freetown», 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 the lantans move through the city, they are lit from within electric bulbs powered by generators, creating a glowing spectacle.
Who acts: lantans · What happens: move, lit, power, create, glow · To what, where: city, lantans, electric bulbs, glowing spectacle
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Freetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lantans), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 move | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lantans | det |
| 3 | lantans | lantan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 move | nsubj |
| 4 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lit | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 move | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lit | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lit | aux:pass |
| 11 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lit | obl |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 bulbs | case |
| 14 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bulbs | amod |
| 15 | bulbs | bulb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lit | obl |
| 16 | powered | power | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bulbs | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 generators | case |
| 18 | generators | generator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 powered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 creating | punct |
| 20 | creating | create | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 lit | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spectacle | det |
| 22 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 spectacle | amod |
| 23 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creating | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the lantans | the city | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through city=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | lit | present · passive | lantans = lantan | within electric bulbs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | power | participle | electric bulbs not said here | by generators | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | create | gerund | a glowing spectacle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Result | |||||
| 5 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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