Luxembourg City, sentence 37
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.
Their demolition, which would signify the opening of the city, took sixteen years, cost 1.5 million gold francs, and required the destruction of over 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates, batteries, barracks, etc. Furthermore, the Prussian garrison was to be withdrawn.
Who acts: demolition, cost, reasons · What happens: signify, take, franc, require, withdraw, demolish · To what, where: opening, destruction, Prussian garrison, 24 km
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 (demolition, cost, reasons), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 demolition | nmod:poss |
| 2 | demolition | demolition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 signify | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 signify | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 signify | aux |
| 6 | signify | signify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 demolition | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 opening | det |
| 8 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signify | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opening | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 demolition | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 francs | punct |
| 17 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 francs | nsubj |
| 18 | 1.5 | 1.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 million | compound |
| 19 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 francs | nummod |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 francs | compound |
| 21 | francs | franc | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 required | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 required | cc |
| 24 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 destruction | det |
| 26 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 required | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 km | case |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 29 24 | advmod |
| 29 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 km | nummod |
| 30 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 destruction | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 defences | case |
| 32 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 defences | amod |
| 33 | defences | defence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 km | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ha | cc |
| 35 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 ha | nummod |
| 36 | ha | ha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 defences | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 casemates | case |
| 38 | casemates | casemate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 ha | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 batteries | punct |
| 40 | batteries | battery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 casemates | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 barracks | punct |
| 42 | barracks | barrack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 casemates | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 etc. | punct |
| 44 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 24 required | obj |
| 45 | Furthermore | furthermore | ADV | _ | 44 etc. | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 withdrawn | punct |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 garrison | det |
| 48 | Prussian | prussian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 garrison | amod |
| 49 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 withdrawn | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 withdrawn | aux:pass |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 withdrawn | mark |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 withdrawn | aux:pass |
| 53 | withdrawn | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 required | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | would | reasons's demolition | the opening of the city | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot opening=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | reasons's demolition | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | franc | cost | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | require | past | the destruction of 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates and batteries and barracks | etc. obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | withdraw | past · passive | the Prussian garrison | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | demolish | reasons = reason | nom demolition «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | destroy | 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates and batteries and barracks | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=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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