Pretoria, sentence 210
From Wikipedia, «Pretoria», 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.
Another distinctive feature of the genre are its dance moves, which are fast-paced, have intense footwork that match the beat.
Who acts: distinctive feature, intense footwork, genre · What happens: be, pace, have, match, feature, dance · To what, where: intense footwork, beat, genre
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pretoria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distinctive feature, intense footwork, genre), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 feature | det |
| 2 | distinctive | distinctive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feature | amod |
| 3 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moves | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 genre | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genre | det |
| 6 | genre | genre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feature | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 moves | cop |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moves | nsubj |
| 10 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 paced | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 paced | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 paced | aux:pass |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 paced | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fast | punct |
| 16 | paced | pace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 moves | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 paced | conj |
| 19 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 footwork | amod |
| 20 | footwork | footwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 match | nsubj |
| 22 | match | match | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 footwork | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beat | det |
| 24 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 match | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | another distinctive feature of the genre | genre's dance nsubj; move property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pace | present · passive | another distinctive feature of the genre not said here | which obj | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | another distinctive feature of the genre not said here | intense footwork | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footwork=Patient | ||||
| 4 | match | present | intense footwork | the beat | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feature | the genre | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | dance | genre | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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