London, sentence 164
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 Thames was once much broader and shallower with extensive wetlands; at high tide, its shores reached five times their present width.
Who acts: Thames, shores · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: present width, high tide
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 (Thames, shores), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Thames | det |
| 2 | Thames | Thames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 broader | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broader | cop |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 broader | advmod |
| 6 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shallower | cc |
| 8 | shallower | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 broader | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wetlands | case |
| 10 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wetlands | amod |
| 11 | wetlands | wetland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 broader | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 tide | case |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tide | amod |
| 15 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tide | punct |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shores | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broader | conj |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 width | nmod:poss |
| 23 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 width | amod |
| 24 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broader | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Thames | with extensive wetlands; broad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Thames not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reach | past | Thames's shores | shores's present width | high tide | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent width=Theme at tide=Asset |
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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