Sweden, sentence 120
From Wikipedia, «Sweden», 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.
After the Battle of Narva in 1700, one of the first battles of the Great Northern War, the Russian army was so severely devastated that Sweden had an open chance to invade Russia.
Who acts: Sweden · What happens: devastate, have, invade, battle · To what, where: Russian army, open chance, Russia, Great Northern War
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Sweden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweden), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 Battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Battle | det |
| 3 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 devastated | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Narva | case |
| 5 | Narva | Narva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Battle | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1700 | case |
| 7 | 1700 | 1700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Battle | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Battle | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 battles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 battles | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 battles | amod |
| 13 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 War | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 War | det |
| 16 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 War | amod |
| 17 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 War | amod |
| 18 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 battles | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Battle | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 army | det |
| 21 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 army | amod |
| 22 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 devastated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 devastated | aux |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 devastated | advmod |
| 25 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 26 devastated | advmod |
| 26 | devastated | devastate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 had | mark |
| 28 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 devastated | advcl |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 chance | det |
| 31 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 chance | amod |
| 32 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 invade | mark |
| 34 | invade | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 chance | acl |
| 35 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 invade | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 devastated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devastate | past · passive | the Russian army | after the Battle of Narva in 1700 | severely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | have | past | Sweden | a open chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | invade | to-infinitive | Sweden not said here | Russia | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | battle | the Great Northern War | nom battle «act 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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