Moscow, sentence 498
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 first circular defence walls set the trajectory of Moscow's rings, laying the groundwork for the future planning of the Russian capital.
Who acts: first circular defence walls · What happens: set, lay, plan · To what, where: trajectory, groundwork, Russian capital
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 (first circular defence walls), 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 | 5 walls | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 walls | amod |
| 3 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 walls | amod |
| 4 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walls | compound |
| 5 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trajectory | det |
| 8 | trajectory | trajectory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rings | case |
| 10 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Moscow | case |
| 12 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trajectory | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laying | punct |
| 14 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 groundwork | det |
| 16 | groundwork | groundwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laying | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 planning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 planning | det |
| 19 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 planning | amod |
| 20 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laying | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 capital | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 capital | det |
| 23 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 capital | amod |
| 24 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 planning | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | the first circular defence walls | the trajectory of Moscow's rings | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trajectory=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay | gerund | the first circular defence walls not said here | the groundwork | for the future planning of the Russian capital | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent groundwork=Result for planning=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | plan | the Russian capital | nom planning «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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