Tokyo, sentence 42
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.
When he became shōgun, the de facto ruler of the country, in 1603, the whole country came to be ruled by Edo.
Who acts: clan, whole country, Edo · What happens: become, come, rule · To what, where: shōgun, 1603
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 (clan, whole country, Edo), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 became | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | advcl |
| 4 | shōgun | shōgun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ruler | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruler | det |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 ruler | compound |
| 8 | facto | facto | X | _ | 9 ruler | compound |
| 9 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shōgun | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ruler | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 1603 | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1603 | case |
| 15 | 1603 | 1603 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 became | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ruled | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ruled | aux:pass |
| 23 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 came | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Edo | case |
| 25 | Edo | Edo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ruled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | clan | shōgun | in 1603 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1603=Result | |||
| 2 | come | past | the whole country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rule | to-infinitive · passive | Edo | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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