Jerusalem, sentence 12
From Wikipedia, «Jerusalem», 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 part of Jerusalem called the City of David shows first signs of settlement in the 4th millennium BCE, in the shape of encampments of nomadic shepherds.
Who acts: part, City · What happens: call, show, sign · To what, where: first signs, settlement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jerusalem». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, City), 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 part | det |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Jerusalem | case |
| 4 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 City | det |
| 7 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shows | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 David | case |
| 9 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 City | nmod |
| 10 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | parataxis |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 signs | amod |
| 12 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shows | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 settlement | case |
| 14 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signs | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 millennium | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 millennium | det |
| 17 | 4th | 4th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 18 millennium | amod |
| 18 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 settlement | nmod |
| 19 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 millennium | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shape | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 shape | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shape | det |
| 23 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signs | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 encampments | case |
| 25 | encampments | encampment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shape | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 shepherds | case |
| 27 | nomadic | nomadic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shepherds | amod |
| 28 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 encampments | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | the part of Jerusalem | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | present | the City of David | first signs of settlement in the 4th millennium | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sign | settlement in the 4th millennium | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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