London, sentence 31
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.
This only lasted until about AD 61, when the Iceni tribe led by Queen Boudica stormed it and burnt it to the ground.
Who acts: This, Iceni tribe · What happens: last, lead, storm, burnt · To what, where: Iceni tribe, settlement
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 (This, Iceni tribe), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 lasted | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 lasted | advmod |
| 3 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 AD | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 AD | advmod |
| 6 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lasted | obl |
| 7 | 61 | 61 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 AD | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stormed | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stormed | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tribe | det |
| 11 | Iceni | iceni | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tribe | amod |
| 12 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stormed | nsubj |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tribe | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Boudica | case |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Boudica | compound |
| 16 | Boudica | Boudica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl:agent |
| 17 | stormed | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lasted | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stormed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 burnt | cc |
| 20 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stormed | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 burnt | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burnt | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | This | until AD | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | participle | the Iceni tribe not said here | Queen Boudica obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | storm | past | the Iceni tribe | settlement | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | burnt | past | the Iceni tribe not said here | settlement | to the ground | tree rules |
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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