Sofia, sentence 40
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.
In 1879, there was a dispute about what the name of the new Bulgarian capital should be, when the citizens created a committee of famous people, insisting for the Slavic name.
Who acts: dispute, citizens · What happens: be, create, insist, name · To what, where: 1879, committee, new Bulgarian capital
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 (dispute, citizens), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1879 | case |
| 2 | 1879 | 1879 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 was | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1879 | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dispute | det |
| 7 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dispute | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 be | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 capital | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 capital | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 capital | amod |
| 15 | Bulgarian | bulgarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 capital | amod |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 what | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 created | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 created | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 citizens | det |
| 22 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 created | nsubj |
| 23 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 was | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 committee | det |
| 25 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 created | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 27 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 committee | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 insisting | punct |
| 30 | insisting | insist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 created | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 name | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 name | det |
| 33 | Slavic | slavic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 name | amod |
| 34 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 insisting | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a dispute | 1879; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1879=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | create | past | the citizens | a committee of famous people | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent committee=Result | ||||
| 4 | insist speech: other | gerund | the citizens not said here | for the Slavic name | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | name | the new Bulgarian capital | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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