Germany, sentence 103
From Wikipedia, «Germany», 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.
Following Hitler's suicide during the Battle of Berlin, Germany signed the surrender document on 8 May 1945, ending World War II in Europe and Nazi Germany.
What happens: follow, sign, end · To what, where: surrender document, 8, World War, Europe
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Germany». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 suicide | case |
| 2 | Hitler | Hitler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 suicide | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hitler | case |
| 4 | suicide | suicide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signed | obl |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 Battle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Battle | det |
| 7 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 suicide | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Berlin | case |
| 9 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Battle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Germany | punct |
| 11 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Battle | conj |
| 12 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 document | det |
| 14 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 document | compound |
| 15 | document | document | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signed | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 8 | case |
| 17 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 signed | obl |
| 18 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 8 | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 8 | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ending | punct |
| 21 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 signed | advcl |
| 22 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 War | compound |
| 23 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ending | obl |
| 24 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 23 War | flat |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Europe | case |
| 26 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ending | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Nazi | cc |
| 28 | Nazi | Nazi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Europe | conj |
| 29 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Nazi | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sign | past | the surrender document | 8 May | follow Hitler's suicide during the Battle of Berlin and Germany | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent document=Theme on 8=Destination | |||
| 3 | end | gerund | World War | Europe and Nazi | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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