London, sentence 320
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.
Nationalised in 1970 and then purchased by London Transport (now Transport for London), Victoria Coach Station has over 14 million passengers a year and provides services across the UK and continental Europe.
What happens: nationalis, purchase, have over, provide · To what, where: 1970, million passengers, services, UK
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: 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 | Nationalised | nationalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 has | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1970 | case |
| 3 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Nationalised | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 purchased | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 purchased | advmod |
| 6 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nationalised | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Transport | case |
| 8 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Transport | compound |
| 9 | Transport | Transport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 purchased | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Transport | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Transport | advmod |
| 12 | Transport | Transport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Transport | appos |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 London | case |
| 14 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Transport | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Transport | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Victoria | punct |
| 17 | Victoria | Victoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Transport | conj |
| 18 | Coach | Coach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Station | compound |
| 19 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Victoria | conj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 million | advmod |
| 22 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 million | compound |
| 23 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 passengers | nummod |
| 24 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 has | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passengers | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 provides | cc |
| 28 | provides | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 has | conj |
| 29 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 provides | obj |
| 30 | across | across | ADP | _ | 32 UK | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 UK | det |
| 32 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 provides | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Europe | cc |
| 34 | continental | continental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Europe | amod |
| 35 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 UK | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nationalis | participle | 1970 | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | purchase | participle | then | by London Transport and Victoria and Coach Station | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | have over | present | million passengers a year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passenger=Patient | |||||
| 4 | provide | present | services | the UK and continental Europe | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition service=Theme |
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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