Helsinki, sentence 340
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.
Helsinki was already known in the 18th century for its abundant number of inns and pubs, where both locals and those who landed in the harbor were offered plenty of alcoholic beverages.
What happens: know, land, offer · To what, where: Helsinki, harbor, locals
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: 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 | Helsinki | Helsinki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 century | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 century | det |
| 7 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 century | amod |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 number | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 number | nmod:poss |
| 11 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 number | amod |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 known | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 inns | case |
| 14 | inns | inn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pubs | cc |
| 16 | pubs | pub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 inns | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 offered | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 offered | advmod |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 locals | det |
| 20 | locals | local | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 those | cc |
| 22 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 locals | conj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 landed | nsubj |
| 24 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 harbor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 harbor | det |
| 27 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 landed | obl |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 offered | aux:pass |
| 29 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 inns | acl |
| 30 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 offered | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 beverages | case |
| 32 | alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 beverages | amod |
| 33 | beverages | beverage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 plenty | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | Helsinki | century | for Broadcasting's abundant number of inns and pubs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | land | past | the harbor | who nsubj | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in harbor=Destination | ||||
| 3 | offer | past · passive | both locals those | plenty of alcoholic beverages obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal plenty=Theme |
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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