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London, sentence 158

From Wikipedia, «London», 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 capital of England was moved from Winchester as the Palace of Westminster developed in the 12th and 13th centuries to become the home of the royal court, and thus the nation's political capital.

Who acts: Palace · What happens: move, develop, become · To what, where: capital, Winchester, 12th, home

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «London». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palace), 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

detnsubj:passcasenmodaux:passcaseoblmarkdetnsubjcasenmodadvclcasedetoblccamodconjmarkadvcldetxcompcasedetamodnmodpunctccadvmoddetnmod:posscaseamodparataxispunctrootTheDETcapitalNOUNofADPEnglandPROPNwasAUXmovedVERBfromADPWinchesterPROPNasSCONJtheDETPalacePROPNofADPWestminsterPROPNdevelopedVERBinADPtheDET12thNOUNandCCONJ13thADJcenturiesNOUNtoPARTbecomeVERBtheDEThomeNOUNofADPtheDETroyalADJcourtNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthusADVtheDETnationNOUN'sPARTpoliticalADJcapitalNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 capitaldet
2capitalcapitalNOUNNumber=Sing6 movednsubj:pass
3ofofADP_4 Englandcase
4EnglandEnglandPROPNNumber=Sing2 capitalnmod
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 movedaux:pass
6movedmoveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7fromfromADP_8 Winchestercase
8WinchesterWinchesterPROPNNumber=Sing6 movedobl
9asasSCONJ_14 developedmark
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Palacedet
11PalacePalacePROPNNumber=Sing14 developednsubj
12ofofADP_13 Westminstercase
13WestminsterWestminsterPROPNNumber=Sing11 Palacenmod
14developeddevelopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 movedadvcl
15ininADP_17 12thcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 12thdet
1712th12thNOUNNumber=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord14 developedobl
18andandCCONJ_20 centuriescc
1913th13thADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord20 centuriesamod
20centuriescenturyNOUNNumber=Plur17 12thconj
21totoPART_22 becomemark
22becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf14 developedadvcl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 homedet
24homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing22 becomexcomp
25ofofADP_28 courtcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 courtdet
27royalroyalADJDegree=Pos28 courtamod
28courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing24 homenmod
29,,PUNCT_36 capitalpunct
30andandCCONJ_36 capitalcc
31thusthusADV_36 capitaladvmod
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 nationdet
33nationnationNOUNNumber=Sing36 capitalnmod:poss
34's'sPART_33 nationcase
35politicalpoliticalADJDegree=Pos36 capitalamod
36capitalcapitalNOUNNumber=Sing6 movedparataxis
37..PUNCT_6 movedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1movepast · passivethe capital of EnglandWinchesterthe nation's political capital parataxisvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from winchester=Trajectory
2developpastthe Palace of Westminsterthe 12th and 13th centuriesvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 12th=Location
3becometo-infinitivethe Palace of Westminster not said herethe home of the royal courtvn 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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «London», 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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