Tirana, sentence 119
From Wikipedia, «Tirana», 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.
Over the last decades, air pollution has become a pressing concern as the number of cars has increased.
Who acts: air pollution, pressing concern · What happens: become, press, increase · To what, where: pressing concern, number
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tirana». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air pollution, pressing concern), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 decades | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 decades | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 decades | amod |
| 4 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 become | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 decades | punct |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pollution | compound |
| 7 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 concern | det |
| 11 | pressing | press | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 concern | amod |
| 12 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 increased | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cars | case |
| 17 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 increased | aux |
| 19 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 concern | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · perfect | air pollution | a pressing concern | decade | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | press | gerund | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | increase | present · perfect · passive | a pressing concern not said here | the number of cars | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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