Lisbon, sentence 104
From Wikipedia, «Lisbon», 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 development of industry and commerce determined the growth of the city, seeing the transformation of the Passeio Público, a Pombaline era park, into the Avenida da Liberdade, as the city grew farther from the Tagus.
Who acts: development, Avenida da Liberdade, city · What happens: determine, see, grow, develop, transform · To what, where: growth, transformation, industry, Passeio Público
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Lisbon». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (development, Avenida da Liberdade, 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 development | det |
| 2 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 industry | case |
| 4 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 development | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 commerce | cc |
| 6 | commerce | commerce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 industry | conj |
| 7 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 growth | det |
| 9 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determined | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growth | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 determined | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 transformation | det |
| 16 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Público | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Público | det |
| 19 | Passeio | Passeio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Público | compound |
| 20 | Público | Público | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 transformation | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 park | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 park | det |
| 23 | Pombaline | Pombaline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 park | compound |
| 24 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 park | compound |
| 25 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Público | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Liberdade | punct |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 Liberdade | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Liberdade | det |
| 29 | Avenida | Avenida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Liberdade | compound |
| 30 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Liberdade | compound |
| 31 | Liberdade | Liberdade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grew | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 grew | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 city | det |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 36 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 determined | conj |
| 37 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 grew | advmod |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 Tagus | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Tagus | det |
| 40 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the development of industry and commerce | the growth of the city | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the development of industry and commerce not said here | the transformation of the Passeio Público | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer transformation=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the Avenida da Liberdade | from the Tagus; the city nsubj; far property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from tagus=Patient | ||||
| 4 | develop | industry and commerce | nom development «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | grow | the city | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | transform | the Passeio Público | nom transformation «event 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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Lisbon», 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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