Sofia, sentence 33
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.
The Slavic name Sredets (Срѣдецъ), which is related to "middle" (среда, "sreda") and to the city's earliest name, first appeared on paper in an 11th-century text.
Who acts: Slavic name, earliest name, city · What happens: be, appear, name · To what, where: paper, Slavic name
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 (Slavic name, earliest name, city), 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 | 3 name | det |
| 2 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Sredets | Sredet | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 name | appos |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 Срѣдецъ | punct |
| 6 | Срѣдецъ | Срѣдецъ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 name | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 Срѣдецъ | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 related | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 related | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 related | cop |
| 11 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 middle | punct |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 related | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 related | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 среда | punct |
| 17 | среда | среда | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 related | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sreda | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sreda | punct |
| 20 | sreda | sreda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 среда | appos |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sreda | punct |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 среда | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 name | cc |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 name | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 name | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 city | case |
| 28 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 name | amod |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 related | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 appeared | punct |
| 31 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 appeared | advmod |
| 32 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 name | acl:relcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 paper | case |
| 34 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appeared | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 text | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 text | det |
| 37 | 11th | 11th | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 century | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 11th | punct |
| 39 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 text | compound |
| 40 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 appeared | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Slavic name | to middle; среда obl; the city's earliest name conj; related property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the city's earliest name not said here | paper | in a century text; first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paper=Location | |||
| 4 | name | the city | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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