Oslo, sentence 181
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.
Linstow also planned Karl Johans gate, the avenue connecting the Palace and the city, with a monumental square halfway to be surrounded by buildings for University, the Parliament (Storting) and other institutions.
Who acts: Linstow, avenue, buildings, Parliament · What happens: plan, connect, surround, stort · To what, where: Karl gate, Palace
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 (Linstow, avenue, buildings, Parliament), 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 | Linstow | Linstow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 planned | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 planned | advmod |
| 3 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | compound |
| 5 | Johans | Johans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Karl | flat |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 avenue | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 avenue | det |
| 9 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | appos |
| 10 | connecting | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 avenue | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Palace | det |
| 12 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 connecting | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 city | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Palace | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 square | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 square | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 square | det |
| 19 | monumental | monumental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 square | amod |
| 20 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planned | parataxis |
| 21 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 20 square | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 surrounded | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 24 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 square | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 buildings | case |
| 26 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 University | case |
| 28 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 buildings | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Parliament | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Parliament | det |
| 31 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 University | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 Storting | punct |
| 33 | Storting | stort | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 Parliament | acl |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 Storting | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 institutions | cc |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 institutions | amod |
| 37 | institutions | institution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 University | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 planned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | past | Linstow | Karl gate | a monumental square parataxis | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Topic | |||
| 2 | connect | gerund | the avenue not said here | the Palace and the city | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient | ||||
| 3 | surround | to-infinitive · passive | buildings for University and the Parliament and other institutions | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stort | gerund | the Parliament not said here | tree rules |
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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