Germany, sentence 40
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.
The eastern successor kingdom of East Francia stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe river in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps.
Who acts: eastern successor kingdom · What happens: stretch · To what, where: Elbe river, Rhine
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 (eastern successor kingdom), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 2 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kingdom | amod |
| 3 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | compound |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 East | case |
| 6 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | nmod |
| 7 | Francia | Francia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 East | flat |
| 8 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Rhine | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rhine | det |
| 11 | Rhine | Rhine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 west | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 west | det |
| 14 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 17 | Elbe | Elbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 river | compound |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 east | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 east | det |
| 21 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 river | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Sea | cc |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sea | det |
| 25 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sea | compound |
| 26 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 east | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Alps | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Alps | det |
| 29 | Alps | alp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stretched | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | the eastern successor kingdom of East | the Elbe river in the east and the North Sea | the Rhine | in the west; to the Alps | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in west=Topic to river=Recipient |
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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