Serbia, sentence 437
From Wikipedia, «Serbia», 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.
The most important inland waterway is the Danube which connects country with the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean through the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal as well as to the Black Sea through the Danube–Black Sea Canal.
Who acts: important inland waterway · What happens: be, connect · To what, where: Danube, country, Rhine
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Serbia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (important inland waterway), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 waterway | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 important | advmod |
| 3 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waterway | amod |
| 4 | inland | inland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waterway | amod |
| 5 | waterway | waterway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 connects | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Danube | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Danube | det |
| 8 | Danube | Danube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 connects | nsubj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 connects | nsubj |
| 10 | connects | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 connects | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sea | det |
| 14 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sea | compound |
| 15 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 connects | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Ocean | cc |
| 17 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ocean | compound |
| 18 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sea | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 Rhine | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Rhine | det |
| 21 | Rhine | Rhine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 connects | obl |
| 22 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Main | punct |
| 23 | Main | Main | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rhine | conj |
| 24 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Canal | punct |
| 25 | Danube | Danube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Canal | compound |
| 26 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rhine | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 33 Sea | cc |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 as | fixed |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 as | fixed |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Sea | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sea | det |
| 32 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sea | compound |
| 33 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Rhine | conj |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 Canal | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Canal | det |
| 36 | Danube | Danube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Black | compound |
| 37 | – | – | PUNCT | _ | 36 Danube | punct |
| 38 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Sea | compound |
| 39 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Canal | compound |
| 40 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 connects | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 connects | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Danube | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | connect | present | the important inland waterway | country | the Rhine and Main and Danube Canal as the Black Sea | with the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean; through the Sea Canal; which nsubj | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent country=Patient with sea=Co-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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