Montevideo, sentence 655
From Wikipedia, «Montevideo», 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.
However, beginning in the 1980s, shopping malls started to be built in different parts of the city, significantly altering its commercial landscape.
Who acts: beginning · What happens: begin, start, build, alter · To what, where: 1980s, commercial landscape
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Montevideo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beginning), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 10 started | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 started | csubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1980s | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 1980s | det |
| 6 | 1980s | 1980s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 beginning | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 malls | punct |
| 8 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 malls | compound |
| 9 | malls | mall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 1980s | conj |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 built | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 built | aux:pass |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 started | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 parts | case |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 parts | amod |
| 16 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 built | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 parts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 altering | punct |
| 21 | significantly | significantly | ADV | _ | 22 altering | advmod |
| 22 | altering | alter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 started | advcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 landscape | nmod:poss |
| 24 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 landscape | amod |
| 25 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 altering | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | gerund | the 1980s and shopping malls | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | start | past | beginning | however property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive · passive | beginning not said here | in different parts of the city | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: in part=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | alter | gerund | beginning not said here | part's commercial landscape | significantly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent landscape=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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