Luxembourg City, sentence 25
From Wikipedia, «Luxembourg City», 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 ensuing explosion sent flaming pieces of the church roof flying into a wide radius, setting fire to the mostly thatched or shingled rooves of buildings.
Who acts: ensuing explosion, church roof · What happens: ensue, send, flame, fly, set, thatch · To what, where: pieces, wide radius, fire
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luxembourg City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ensuing explosion, church roof), 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 | 3 explosion | det |
| 2 | ensuing | ensue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 explosion | amod |
| 3 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 sent | xcomp |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flaming | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roof | compound |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | nmod |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 roof | acl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 radius | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 radius | det |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 radius | amod |
| 15 | radius | radius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 setting | punct |
| 17 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 flying | conj |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 setting | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 rooves | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rooves | det |
| 21 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 22 thatched | advmod |
| 22 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 rooves | amod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 shingled | cc |
| 24 | shingled | shingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 thatched | conj |
| 25 | rooves | roove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 setting | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 buildings | case |
| 27 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rooves | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ensue | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | send | past | the ensuing explosion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flame | gerund | the ensuing explosion not said here | pieces of the church roof | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the church roof not said here | into a wide radius result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into radius=Result | ||||
| 5 | set | gerund | the church roof not said here | fire | to the thatched rooves of buildings | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result | |||
| 6 | thatch | participle | mostly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | shingle | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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