Norway, sentence 428
From Wikipedia, «Norway», 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.
Caspar Wessel was the first to describe vectors and complex numbers in the complex plane, laying the foundation for modern vector and complex analysis.
Who acts: Caspar, complex plane · What happens: be, describe, lay · To what, where: vectors, complex plane, foundation
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Norway». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caspar, complex plane), 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 | Caspar | Caspar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 first | nsubj |
| 2 | Wessel | Wessel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Caspar | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 describe | mark |
| 7 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 first | acl |
| 8 | vectors | vector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 describe | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 numbers | cc |
| 10 | complex | complex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 numbers | amod |
| 11 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 vectors | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 plane | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plane | det |
| 14 | complex | complex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plane | amod |
| 15 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 describe | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laying | punct |
| 17 | laying | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 plane | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foundation | det |
| 19 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laying | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 vector | case |
| 21 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vector | amod |
| 22 | vector | vector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laying | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 analysis | cc |
| 24 | complex | complex | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 analysis | amod |
| 25 | analysis | analysis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vector | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Caspar | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | to-infinitive | vectors and complex numbers | the complex plane | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vector=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | gerund | the complex plane not said here | the foundation | for modern vector and complex analysis | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent foundation=Result for vector=Beneficiary |
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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