Oslo, sentence 139
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.
Because of the city's northern latitude, daylight varies greatly, from more than 18 hours in midsummer, when it never gets completely dark at night (no darker than nautical twilight), to around 6 hours in midwinter.
Who acts: daylight · What happens: vary, not get · To what, where: midsummer
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 (daylight), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 latitude | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 latitude | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 city | case |
| 6 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 latitude | amod |
| 7 | latitude | latitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 varies | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 latitude | punct |
| 9 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 varies | nsubj |
| 10 | varies | vary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 varies | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hours | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 hours | case |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 16 18 | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 more | fixed |
| 16 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 hours | nummod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 varies | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 midsummer | case |
| 19 | midsummer | midsummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 varies | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gets | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 gets | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gets | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 gets | advmod |
| 24 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 varies | conj |
| 25 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 26 dark | advmod |
| 26 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gets | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 night | case |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dark | obl |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 darker | punct |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 darker | det |
| 31 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 gets | xcomp |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 twilight | case |
| 33 | nautical | nautical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 twilight | amod |
| 34 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 darker | obl |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 darker | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hours | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 hours | case |
| 38 | around | around | ADV | _ | 39 6 | advmod |
| 39 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 hours | nummod |
| 40 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gets | parataxis |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 midwinter | case |
| 42 | midwinter | midwinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hours | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 varies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vary | present | daylight | midsummer | hour | because the city's northern latitude; greatly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | not get | present | daylight | dark property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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