Lisbon, sentence 36
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.
According to a persistent legend, the location was named for the Greek mythical king of Ithaca, Ulysses, who founded the city when he sailed westward to the ends of the known world.
Who acts: Ithaca, Ulysses · What happens: accord, name, found, sail, know · To what, where: location, city, ends
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 (Ithaca, Ulysses), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 legend | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 4 | persistent | persistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legend | amod |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 named | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legend | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 location | det |
| 8 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 named | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 named | aux:pass |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 13 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 14 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 named | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ithaca | case |
| 17 | Ithaca | Ithaca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ulysses | punct |
| 19 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ithaca | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 founded | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 founded | nsubj |
| 22 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Ithaca | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 founded | obj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 sailed | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sailed | nsubj |
| 27 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 founded | advcl |
| 28 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 27 sailed | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 ends | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ends | det |
| 31 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sailed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 34 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 world | amod |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ends | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | name | past · passive | the location | accord a persistent legend; for the Greek mythical king of Ithaca and Ulysses | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | found | past | Ithaca and Ulysses | the city | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sail | past | Ulysses | to the ends of the known world | westward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to end=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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