Sofia, sentence 259
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.
Theatre is by far the most popular form of performing art, and theatrical venues are among the most visited, second only to cinemas.
Who acts: Theatre, popular form · What happens: be, perform, visit · To what, where: popular form, art, theatrical venues
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 (Theatre, popular form), 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 | Theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 form | cop |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 far | case |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 form | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 popular | advmod |
| 7 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 performing | mark |
| 10 | performing | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 form | acl |
| 11 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 performing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 visited | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 visited | cc |
| 14 | theatrical | theatrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 venues | amod |
| 15 | venues | venue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 visited | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 visited | aux:pass |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 visited | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 most | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 visited | advmod |
| 20 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 form | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cinemas | punct |
| 22 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 cinemas | advmod |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 cinemas | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 cinemas | case |
| 25 | cinemas | cinema | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 visited | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Theatre | the popular form | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform | gerund | the popular form not said here | art | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme | ||||
| 3 | visit | present · passive | theatrical venues | cinemas conj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Sofia», 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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