Sofia, sentence 112
From Wikipedia, «Sofia», 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.
It was rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. During the reign of Justinian it flourished, being surrounded with great fortress walls whose remnants can still be seen today.
Who acts: Byzantine Emperor, Council · What happens: rebuild, flourish, surround, see · To what, where: Council
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sofia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Byzantine Emperor, Council), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rebuilt | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 3 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Emperor | case |
| 5 | Byzantine | byzantine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Emperor | amod |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rebuilt | obl:agent |
| 7 | Justinian | Justinian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Emperor | flat |
| 8 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Emperor | flat |
| 9 | During | during | ADP | _ | 11 reign | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reign | det |
| 11 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flourished | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Justinian | case |
| 13 | Justinian | Justinian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reign | nmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flourished | nsubj |
| 15 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rebuilt | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surrounded | punct |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 18 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 flourished | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 walls | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 walls | amod |
| 21 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walls | compound |
| 22 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 surrounded | obl |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 remnants | nmod:poss |
| 24 | remnants | remnant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 walls | conj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 seen | aux |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 seen | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seen | aux:pass |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 surrounded | conj |
| 29 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rebuilt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebuild | past · passive | Byzantine Emperor | Council | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | flourish | past | Council | during the reign of Justinian | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surround | gerund · passive | with great fortress walls and great fortress walls and great fortress walls's remnants's remnants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with wall=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | can · passive | still; today | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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