Sweden, sentence 49
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.
Birka was founded around 750 AD as a trading port by a king or merchants trying to control trade.
Who acts: king · What happens: found, merchant, try, control · To what, where: Birka, trade
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 (king), 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 | Birka | Birka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | aux:pass |
| 3 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 750 | advmod |
| 5 | 750 | 750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 AD | nummod |
| 6 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 port | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 port | det |
| 9 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 port | compound |
| 10 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 merchants | cc |
| 15 | merchants | merchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 founded | conj |
| 16 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 merchants | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 control | mark |
| 18 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 trying | xcomp |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 control | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | a king | Birka | as a trading port; 750 AD obl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | merchant | present | a king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | a king not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | control not said to happen | to-infinitive | a king not said here | trade | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Theme |
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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