Prague, sentence 105
From Wikipedia, «Prague», 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 1757, during the Seven Years' War, Prussian bombardment destroyed more than one-quarter of the city and heavily damaged St. Vitus Cathedral.
Who acts: Prussian bombardment · What happens: destroy, damage · To what, where: one quarter, 1757, Vitus Cathedral
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Prague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prussian bombardment), 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 | _ | 2 1757 | case |
| 2 | 1757 | 1757 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 destroyed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1757 | punct |
| 4 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 War | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Years | det |
| 6 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Years | nummod |
| 7 | Years | Year | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 War | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 Years | case |
| 9 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1757 | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1757 | punct |
| 11 | Prussian | prussian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bombardment | amod |
| 12 | bombardment | bombardment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 destroyed | nsubj |
| 13 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 16 one | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 more | fixed |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 quarter | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 quarter | punct |
| 18 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 destroyed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quarter | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 damaged | cc |
| 23 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 24 damaged | advmod |
| 24 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 destroyed | conj |
| 25 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Vitus | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Vitus | Vitus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Cathedral | compound |
| 27 | Cathedral | Cathedral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 damaged | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | Prussian bombardment | one quarter of the city | 1757 during the Seven Years's War | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient | |||
| 2 | damage | participle | Prussian bombardment not said here | Vitus Cathedral | heavily property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cathedral=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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