Helsinki, sentence 123
From Wikipedia, «Helsinki», 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.
However, due to the latitude, the days around the winter solstice are 5 hours and 48 minutes long, with the sun very low (at noon the sun is just over 6 degrees in the sky), and the cloudy weather at this time of year exacerbates the darkness.
Who acts: days, sun, cloudy weather · What happens: be, exacerbate · To what, where: 5 hours, 6 degrees, sky, darkness
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Helsinki». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, sun, cloudy weather), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 latitude | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 due | fixed |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 latitude | det |
| 6 | latitude | latitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hours | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 latitude | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hours | nsubj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 solstice | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 solstice | det |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 solstice | compound |
| 13 | solstice | solstice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 days | nmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hours | cop |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 hours | nummod |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 long | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 minutes | cc |
| 18 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 minutes | nummod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hours | conj |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 low | punct |
| 22 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 26 low | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 low | nsubj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 low | advmod |
| 26 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 long | conj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 degrees | punct |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 noon | case |
| 29 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 degrees | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun | det |
| 31 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 degrees | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 degrees | cop |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 6 | advmod |
| 34 | over | over | ADV | _ | 35 6 | advmod |
| 35 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 degrees | nummod |
| 36 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 low | parataxis |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 sky | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sky | det |
| 39 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 degrees | nmod |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 degrees | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 exacerbates | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 exacerbates | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 weather | det |
| 44 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 weather | amod |
| 45 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 exacerbates | nsubj |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 time | case |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 time | det |
| 48 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 weather | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 year | case |
| 50 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 time | nmod |
| 51 | exacerbates | exacerbate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 long | conj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 darkness | det |
| 53 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 exacerbates | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the days around the winter solstice | 5 hours and 48 minutes | due the latitude | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the sun | 6 degrees | the sky | noon | tree rules | ||
| 3 | exacerbate | present | the cloudy weather at this time of year | the darkness | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent darkness=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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