Tokyo, sentence 435
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.
Narita was chosen as the site for this second airport in 1966, but local farmers and left-wing activists who sympathized with them protested vehemently for more than a decade (the Sanrizuka Struggle), delaying the new airport's opening until 1978.
Who acts: wing activists, local farmers · What happens: choose, sympathize, protest, delay · To what, where: Narita, 1966, opening
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 (wing activists, local farmers), 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 | Narita | Narita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | aux:pass |
| 3 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 site | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 site | det |
| 6 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chosen | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 airport | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 airport | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 airport | amod |
| 10 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chosen | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1966 | case |
| 12 | 1966 | 1966 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 chosen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 protested | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 protested | cc |
| 15 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 farmers | amod |
| 16 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 protested | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 activists | cc |
| 18 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wing | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 20 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 activists | compound |
| 21 | activists | activist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 farmers | conj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sympathized | nsubj |
| 23 | sympathized | sympathize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 activists | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sympathized | obl |
| 26 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chosen | parataxis |
| 27 | vehemently | vehemently | ADV | _ | 26 protested | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 decade | case |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 32 decade | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 more | fixed |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 decade | det |
| 32 | decade | decade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 protested | obl |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Struggle | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Struggle | det |
| 35 | Sanrizuka | Sanrizuka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Struggle | compound |
| 36 | Struggle | Struggle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 decade | appos |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Struggle | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 delaying | punct |
| 39 | delaying | delay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 protested | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 airport | det |
| 41 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 airport | amod |
| 42 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 opening | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 airport | case |
| 44 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 delaying | obj |
| 45 | until | until | ADP | _ | 46 1978 | case |
| 46 | 1978 | 1978 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 delaying | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | Narita | 1966 | as the site; for this second airport | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for airport=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | sympathize | past | wing activists | with farmers = farmer | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | protest speech: disagree | past | local farmers and wing activists | decade | vehemently property | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | delay | gerund | local farmers and wing activists not said here | the new airport's opening | until 1978 | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent opening=Source |
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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