Tokyo, sentence 272
From Wikipedia, «Tokyo», 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 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, killed more than 100,000 people, the last time the urban area was directly hit.
Who acts: 1923 earthquake · What happens: estimate, kill, hit · To what, where: 100,000 people, urban area
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Tokyo». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1923 earthquake), 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 earthquake | det |
| 2 | 1923 | 1923 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 earthquake | nummod |
| 3 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 magnitude | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 magnitude | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 magnitude | det |
| 7 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 magnitude | amod |
| 8 | magnitude | magnitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 earthquake | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 7.9 | case |
| 10 | 7.9 | 7.9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 magnitude | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 earthquake | punct |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 15 100,000 | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 killed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hit | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hit | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 area | det |
| 22 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 area | amod |
| 23 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hit | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hit | aux:pass |
| 25 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 26 hit | advmod |
| 26 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 killed | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | estimate | participle | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | kill | past | the 1923 earthquake and a estimated magnitude of 7.9 | 100,000 people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit | past · passive | the urban area | time | directly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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