Oslo, sentence 347
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.
In recent years, novelists like Lars Saabye Christensen, Tove Nilsen, Suresh Chandra Shukla, Jo Nesbø and Roy Jacobsen have described the city and its people in their novels.
What happens: describe · To what, where: novelists
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 described | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | novelists | novelist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 described | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 Saabye | case |
| 7 | Lars | Lars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saabye | compound |
| 8 | Saabye | Saabye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 novelists | nmod |
| 9 | Christensen | Christensen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saabye | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tove | punct |
| 11 | Tove | Tove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saabye | conj |
| 12 | Nilsen | Nilsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tove | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Suresh | punct |
| 14 | Suresh | Suresh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saabye | conj |
| 15 | Chandra | Chandra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Suresh | flat |
| 16 | Shukla | Shukla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Suresh | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jo | punct |
| 18 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saabye | conj |
| 19 | Nesbø | Nesbø | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Jo | flat |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Roy | cc |
| 21 | Roy | Roy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Saabye | conj |
| 22 | Jacobsen | Jacobsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Roy | flat |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 described | aux |
| 24 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 described | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 people | cc |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 people | nmod:poss |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 city | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 novels | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 novels | nmod:poss |
| 32 | novels | novel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 people | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · perfect · passive | novelists like Lars Saabye and Tove and Suresh and Jo and Roy | year | the city and steel's people in novelists's novels obj | 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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