Tokyo, sentence 516
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.
In literature, the city has featured since the Edo period, while the modern city appears in the works of authors such as Natsume Sōseki and Mori Ōgai, who depicted life in Tokyo during the industrialization period in famous novels such as Sanshirō (1908) and The Wild Geese (1911).
Who acts: city, modern city, Natsume, authors · What happens: feature, appear, depict, work · To what, where: literature, works, life, Tokyo
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 (city, modern city, Natsume, authors), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 literature | case |
| 2 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 featured | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 literature | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 featured | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 featured | aux |
| 7 | featured | feature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 period | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 period | det |
| 10 | Edo | Edo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 period | compound |
| 11 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 featured | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appears | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 appears | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 15 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 city | amod |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appears | nsubj |
| 17 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 featured | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 works | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 works | det |
| 20 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appears | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 authors | case |
| 22 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 works | nmod |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 Natsume | case |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 such | fixed |
| 25 | Natsume | Natsume | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 authors | nmod |
| 26 | Sōseki | Sōseki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Natsume | flat |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Mori | cc |
| 28 | Mori | Mori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Natsume | conj |
| 29 | Ōgai | Ōgai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mori | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 depicted | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 depicted | nsubj |
| 32 | depicted | depict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Natsume | acl:relcl |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 depicted | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Tokyo | case |
| 35 | Tokyo | Tokyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 depicted | obl |
| 36 | during | during | ADP | _ | 39 period | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 period | det |
| 38 | industrialization | industrialization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 period | compound |
| 39 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 depicted | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 novels | case |
| 41 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 novels | amod |
| 42 | novels | novel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 depicted | obl |
| 43 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 45 Sanshirō | case |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 such | fixed |
| 45 | Sanshirō | Sanshirō | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 novels | nmod |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 1908 | punct |
| 47 | 1908 | 1908 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 Sanshirō | appos |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 1908 | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 Geese | cc |
| 50 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Geese | det |
| 51 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 52 Geese | flat |
| 52 | Geese | Geese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Sanshirō | conj |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 54 1911 | punct |
| 54 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 52 Geese | appos |
| 55 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 54 1911 | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 featured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feature | present · perfect | the city | literature | since the Edo period | tree rules | |||
| 2 | appear | present | the modern city | the works of authors such Natsume and Mori | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in work=Location | ||||
| 3 | depict | past | Natsume and Mori | life | Tokyo | during the industrialization period | in famous novels such Sanshirō and the Wild Geese | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |
| 4 | work | authors such Natsume and Mori | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Tokyo», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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