Slovakia, sentence 646
From Wikipedia, «Slovakia», 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.
Traditionally, white wine was more popular than red or rosé (except in some regions), and sweet wine more popular than dry; however, in recent years tastes seem to be changing.
Who acts: white wine, tastes · What happens: be, seem, change
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Slovakia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white wine, tastes), 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 | Traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 7 popular | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Traditionally | punct |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wine | amod |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 popular | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 popular | cop |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 popular | advmod |
| 7 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 red | case |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 popular | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 rosé | cc |
| 11 | rosé | rosé | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 popular | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 regions | punct |
| 13 | except | except | ADP | _ | 16 regions | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 regions | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 regions | det |
| 16 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rosé | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 regions | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 popular | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 popular | cc |
| 20 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wine | amod |
| 21 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 more | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 popular | advmod |
| 23 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 popular | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 dry | case |
| 25 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 popular | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 seem | punct |
| 27 | however | however | ADV | _ | 32 tastes | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 however | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 years | case |
| 30 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 years | amod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 tastes | obl |
| 32 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 seem | nsubj |
| 33 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 popular | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 changing | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 changing | aux |
| 36 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 seem | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 popular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | white wine | than red; popular, traditionally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | white wine not said here | some regions appos | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | white wine not said here | than dry | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | present | tastes in recent years | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | change | to-infinitive · progressive | tastes in recent years not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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