Oslo, sentence 112
From Wikipedia, «Oslo», 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.
Efforts to stop the invasion, most notably the sinking of the Blücher, delayed the occupation of Oslo for several hours which allowed King Haakon to escape the city.
Who acts: Efforts, several hours, King, Blücher · What happens: stop, delay, allow, escape, sink, occupy · To what, where: invasion, occupation, King, city, Oslo
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Oslo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Efforts, several hours, King, Blücher), 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 | Efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 delayed | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 stop | mark |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Efforts | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 invasion | det |
| 5 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sinking | punct |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 notably | advmod |
| 8 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 10 sinking | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sinking | det |
| 10 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Efforts | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Blücher | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Blücher | det |
| 13 | Blücher | Blücher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sinking | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Efforts | punct |
| 15 | delayed | delay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 occupation | det |
| 17 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delayed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Oslo | case |
| 19 | Oslo | Oslo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 occupation | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 hours | case |
| 21 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hours | amod |
| 22 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 delayed | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 allowed | nsubj |
| 24 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hours | acl:relcl |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 allowed | obj |
| 26 | Haakon | Haakon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 King | flat |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 escape | mark |
| 28 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 allowed | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 city | det |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 escape | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 delayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | Efforts and the sinking of the Blücher not said here | the invasion | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality invasion=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | delay | past | Efforts and the sinking of the Blücher | the occupation of Oslo | hour | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent occupation=Source | |||
| 3 | allow | past | several hours | King | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer king=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | the city | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | sink | the Blücher | nom sinking «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | occupy | Oslo | nom occupation «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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