Oslo, sentence 8
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.
After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king.
Who acts: fire · What happens: destroy, build, name, honour · To what, where: 1624, new city, honour, king
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 (fire), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 destroyed | mark |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 3 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1624 | case |
| 8 | 1624 | 1624 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 destroyed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reign | punct |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 reign | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reign | det |
| 12 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 destroyed | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Christian | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Christian | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reign | nmod |
| 16 | IV | IV | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 15 Christian | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 built | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 city | amod |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 built | aux:pass |
| 22 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 reign | parataxis |
| 23 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 built | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Fortress | case |
| 25 | Akershus | Akershus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Fortress | compound |
| 26 | Fortress | Fortress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 closer | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 named | cc |
| 28 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 built | conj |
| 29 | Christiania | Christiania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 named | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 honour | case |
| 31 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 named | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 king | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 honour | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | gerund · passive | a fire | 1624 | the reign of Christian King parataxis | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | a new city | close property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | honour of the king | Christiania xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | honour | the king | nom honour «state 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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