Moscow, sentence 328
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.
Critics blame the government for not enforcing conservation laws: in the last 12 years, more than 50 buildings with monument status were torn down, several of those dating back to the 17th century.
Who acts: Critics · What happens: blame, not enforce, tear down · To what, where: government, conservation laws, 50 buildings
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 (Critics), 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 | Critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blame | nsubj |
| 2 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 government | det |
| 4 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blame | obj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 enforcing | mark |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 enforcing | advmod |
| 7 | enforcing | enforce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 blame | advcl |
| 8 | conservation | conservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laws | compound |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 enforcing | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 years | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 14 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 torn | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buildings | punct |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 19 50 | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 more | fixed |
| 19 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 buildings | nummod |
| 20 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 status | case |
| 22 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 status | compound |
| 23 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buildings | nmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 torn | aux:pass |
| 25 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 blame | parataxis |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 torn | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 several | punct |
| 28 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 torn | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 dating | case |
| 30 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 dating | det |
| 31 | dating | dating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 several | obl |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 several | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 century | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 century | det |
| 35 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 36 century | amod |
| 36 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 back | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present | Critics | the government | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not enforce | gerund | Critics not said here | conservation laws | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tear down | past · passive | 50 buildings with monument status | year | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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