Lisbon, sentence 308
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.
With open arms, overlooking the whole city, it resembles the Corcovado monument in Rio de Janeiro, and was built after World War II, as a memorial of thanksgiving for Portugal's being spared the horrors and destruction of the war.
Who acts: open arms, city · What happens: overlook, resemble, build, spare, destroy · To what, where: whole city, Corcovado monument, Rio, horrors, war
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 (open arms, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 arms | case |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arms | amod |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 resembles | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overlooking | punct |
| 5 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 arms | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overlooking | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arms | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 resembles | nsubj |
| 11 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 monument | det |
| 13 | Corcovado | Corcovado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 monument | compound |
| 14 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resembles | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Rio | case |
| 16 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 monument | nmod |
| 17 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rio | flat |
| 18 | Janeiro | Janeiro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rio | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 built | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 built | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 built | aux:pass |
| 22 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 resembles | conj |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 War | case |
| 24 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 War | compound |
| 25 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 built | obl |
| 26 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 25 War | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 memorial | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 memorial | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 memorial | det |
| 30 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 thanksgiving | case |
| 32 | thanksgiving | thanksgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 memorial | nmod |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 spared | mark |
| 34 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 spared | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Portugal | case |
| 36 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 spared | aux:pass |
| 37 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 memorial | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 horrors | det |
| 39 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 spared | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 destruction | cc |
| 41 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 horrors | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 war | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 war | det |
| 44 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 destruction | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 resembles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlook | gerund | open arms not said here | the whole city | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 2 | resemble | present | city | the Corcovado monument | Rio | with open arms | tree rules | ||
| 3 | build | past · passive | city not said here | after World War | a memorial of thanksgiving parataxis | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | |||
| 4 | spare | gerund · passive | city not said here | the horrors and destruction of the war | Portugal nmod:poss | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: horror=Asset | |||
| 5 | destroy | the war | nom destruction «act 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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