Lisbon, sentence 192
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.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Alcântara became a popular industrial area, with many small factories and warehouses and docks along the waterfront.
Who acts: Alcântara · What happens: become · To what, where: popular industrial area
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 (Alcântara), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 8 centuries | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 centuries | det |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centuries | amod |
| 4 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 centuries | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 early | cc |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 19th | conj |
| 7 | 20th | 20th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 centuries | amod |
| 8 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 became | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 centuries | punct |
| 10 | Alcântara | Alcântara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 area | det |
| 13 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 area | amod |
| 14 | industrial | industrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 area | amod |
| 15 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 factories | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 factories | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 factories | amod |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 factories | amod |
| 20 | factories | factory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 became | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 warehouses | cc |
| 22 | warehouses | warehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 factories | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 docks | cc |
| 24 | docks | dock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 factories | conj |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 27 waterfront | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 waterfront | det |
| 27 | waterfront | waterfront | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 factories | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Alcântara | a popular industrial area | century | with many small factories along the waterfront and warehouses and docks | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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