Lisbon, sentence 191
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.
In the 16th century, there was a brook there which the nobles used to promenade in their boats.
Who acts: brook, nobles · What happens: be, use, promenade · To what, where: brook, boats
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 (brook, nobles), 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 | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 16th | 16th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 century | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brook | det |
| 9 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 brook | advmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 used | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nobles | det |
| 13 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 used | nsubj |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brook | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 promenade | mark |
| 16 | promenade | promenade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 boats | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 boats | nmod:poss |
| 19 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 promenade | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a brook | there | century | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | past | the nobles | a brook | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | promenade | to-infinitive | the nobles not said here | nobles's boats | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Trajectory |
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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