Germany, sentence 5
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 nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.
Who acts: capital, main financial centre, largest urban area · What happens: be · To what, where: Berlin, Frankfurt, Ruhr
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 (capital, main financial centre, largest urban 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nation | det |
| 2 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 nation | case |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Berlin | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 city | cc |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 populous | advmod |
| 7 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Berlin | cop |
| 10 | Berlin | Berlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Frankfurt | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 centre | nmod:poss |
| 13 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 centre | amod |
| 14 | financial | financial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 centre | amod |
| 15 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Frankfurt | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Frankfurt | cop |
| 17 | Frankfurt | Frankfurt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Berlin | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ruhr | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 area | det |
| 20 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 area | amod |
| 21 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 area | amod |
| 22 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ruhr | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Ruhr | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Ruhr | det |
| 25 | Ruhr | ruhr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Berlin | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Berlin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the nation's capital and populous city | Berlin and Frankfurt | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | city's main financial centre | Frankfurt | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the largest urban area | the Ruhr | tree rules |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Germany», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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