Moscow, sentence 21
From Wikipedia, «Moscow», 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 most linguistically well-grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *mŭzg-/muzg- from the Proto-Indo-European meu- "wet", so the name Moskva might signify a river at a wetland or marsh.
Who acts: name · What happens: ground, accept, be, signify · To what, where: Proto Slavic root, river, wetland
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Moscow». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 | 6 grounded | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 linguistically | advmod |
| 3 | linguistically | linguistically | ADV | _ | 6 grounded | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 grounded | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | grounded | ground | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 root | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 accepted | cc |
| 8 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 9 accepted | advmod |
| 9 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 grounded | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 root | cop |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 root | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 root | det |
| 13 | Proto | Proto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 root | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Balto | punct |
| 15 | Balto | Balto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Proto | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Proto | punct |
| 17 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 root | amod |
| 18 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 22 /muzg | punct |
| 20 | mŭzg | mŭzg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 /muzg | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 mŭzg | punct |
| 22 | /muzg | /muzg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 root | conj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 wet | punct |
| 24 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 34 wet | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wet | det |
| 26 | Proto | Proto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 meu | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Proto | punct |
| 28 | Indo | Indo | X | _ | 30 European | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Indo | punct |
| 30 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 meu | amod |
| 31 | meu | meu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wet | nsubj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 wet | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 wet | punct |
| 34 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 /muzg | parataxis |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 wet | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 signify | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 signify | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 name | det |
| 39 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 signify | nsubj |
| 40 | Moskva | Moskva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 name | appos |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 signify | aux |
| 42 | signify | signify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 root | conj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 river | det |
| 44 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 signify | obj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 wetland | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 wetland | det |
| 47 | wetland | wetland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 signify | obl |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 marsh | cc |
| 49 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wetland | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 root | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ground | participle | linguistically, well property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | accept | participle | widely property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the Proto Slavic root and mŭzg /muzg | mŭzg /muzg conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | signify | might | the name | a river | a wetland or marsh | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot river=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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