London, sentence 35
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.
From about 500 an Anglo-Saxon settlement known as Lundenwic developed slightly west of the old Roman city.
Who acts: Saxon settlement · What happens: know, develop · To what, where: Saxon 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 (Saxon settlement), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 500 | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 500 | advmod |
| 3 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 developed | obl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 settlement | det |
| 5 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 7 Saxon | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Anglo | punct |
| 7 | Saxon | Saxon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 settlement | amod |
| 8 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 developed | nsubj |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 settlement | acl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 Lundenwic | case |
| 11 | Lundenwic | Lundenwic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 known | obl |
| 12 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 14 west | advmod |
| 14 | west | west | ADV | _ | 12 developed | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 18 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 west | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 developed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | a Saxon settlement not said here | as Lundenwic | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as lundenwic=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | develop | past | a Saxon settlement | from 500; west property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from 500=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.
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