San Marino, sentence 127
From Wikipedia, «San Marino», 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 this role they are the forces most visible to tourists and are known for their colourful ceremony of Changing the Guard.
Who acts: borders, colourful ceremony · What happens: be, know, change · To what, where: forces, role, Guard
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «San Marino». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (borders, colourful ceremony), 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 role | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 role | det |
| 3 | role | role | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forces | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 forces | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forces | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forces | det |
| 7 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 visible | advmod |
| 9 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forces | amod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tourists | case |
| 11 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 visible | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 known | cc |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux:pass |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 visible | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ceremony | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ceremony | nmod:poss |
| 17 | colourful | colourful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ceremony | amod |
| 18 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 Changing | mark |
| 20 | Changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 ceremony | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Guard | det |
| 22 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Changing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | borders = border | the forces | this role | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present · passive | borders = border not said here | for borders's colourful ceremony | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | borders's colourful ceremony not said here | the Guard | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «San Marino», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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