Santiago, sentence 164
From Wikipedia, «Santiago», 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.
During the winter months, air pollution reached critical levels and a layer of smog blanketed the city.
Who acts: air pollution, critical levels · What happens: reach, blanket · To what, where: city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Santiago». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air pollution, critical levels), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 months | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 months | det |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 months | compound |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reached | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 months | punct |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pollution | compound |
| 7 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | critical | critical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 levels | amod |
| 10 | levels | level | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blanketed | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 layer | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 layer | det |
| 13 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 levels | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 smog | case |
| 15 | smog | smog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 layer | nmod |
| 16 | blanketed | blanket | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blanketed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | air pollution | month | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blanket | past | critical levels and a layer of smog | the city | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent city=Destination |
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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