Helsinki, sentence 67
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In 1640, Count Per Brahe the Younger, together with some descendants of the original settlers, moved the centre of the city to the Vironniemi peninsula by the sea, today's Kruununhaka district, where the Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral are located.
Who acts: you · What happens: count, move, locate · To what, where: Per, 1640, centre, Vironniemi peninsula, Senate Square
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 (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1640 | case |
| 2 | 1640 | 1640 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Count | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Count | punct |
| 4 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Per | Per | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Count | obj |
| 6 | Brahe | Brahe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Per | flat |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Younger | det |
| 8 | Younger | Younger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Per | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 together | punct |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 Count | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 descendants | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 descendants | det |
| 13 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Count | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 settlers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 settlers | det |
| 16 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 settlers | amod |
| 17 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 descendants | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moved | punct |
| 19 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Count | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 centre | det |
| 21 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moved | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 city | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 centre | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 peninsula | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 peninsula | det |
| 27 | Vironniemi | Vironniemi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 peninsula | compound |
| 28 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moved | obl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moved | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 district | punct |
| 33 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 district | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 today | case |
| 35 | Kruununhaka | Kruununhaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 district | compound |
| 36 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sea | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 located | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 located | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Square | det |
| 40 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Square | compound |
| 41 | Square | Square | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 located | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Cathedral | cc |
| 43 | Helsinki | Helsinki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Cathedral | compound |
| 44 | Cathedral | Cathedral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Square | conj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 located | aux:pass |
| 46 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 district | acl:relcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | Per | 1640 | with some descendants of the original settlers; together property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent per=Theme | ||
| 2 | move | past | the centre of the city | the Vironniemi peninsula | by the sea | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent centre=Theme to peninsula=Source by sea=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | locate | present · passive | the Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral | 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.
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