Germany, sentence 16
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.
After the fall of the communist-led government in East Germany, German reunification saw the former East German states join the FRG on 3 October 1990.
Who acts: German reunification, former German states · What happens: lead, see, join · To what, where: FRG, 3 · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (German reunification, former German states), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 fall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fall | det |
| 3 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 government | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 government | det |
| 6 | communist | communist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 led | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 communist | punct |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 government | amod |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 East | case |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 government | nmod |
| 12 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 East | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
| 14 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reunification | amod |
| 15 | reunification | reunification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 states | det |
| 18 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 states | amod |
| 19 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 German | compound |
| 20 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 states | compound |
| 21 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 join | nsubj |
| 22 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 FRG | det |
| 24 | FRG | FRG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 join | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 3 | case |
| 26 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 join | obl |
| 27 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 3 | compound |
| 28 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 3 | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | German reunification | after the fall of the led government in East | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | join | present | the former German states | the FRG | 3 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frg=Patient |
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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