Tokyo, sentence 80
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.
Between 1940 and 1945, the population of Tokyo dwindled from 6,700,000 to less than 2,800,000, as soldiers were sent to the front and children were evacuated.
Who acts: population · What happens: dwindle, send, evacuate · To what, where: 6,700,000, soldiers, front, children
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 (population), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1940 | case |
| 2 | 1940 | 1940 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 dwindled | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1945 | cc |
| 4 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1940 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1940 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 population | det |
| 7 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwindled | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tokyo | case |
| 9 | Tokyo | Tokyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 population | nmod |
| 10 | dwindled | dwindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 6,700,000 | case |
| 12 | 6,700,000 | 6,700,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 dwindled | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 2,800,000 | case |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 16 2,800,000 | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 less | fixed |
| 16 | 2,800,000 | 2,800,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 6,700,000 | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | aux:pass |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dwindled | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 front | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 front | det |
| 24 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 evacuated | cc |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 evacuated | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 evacuated | aux:pass |
| 28 | evacuated | evacuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sent | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dwindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwindle | past | the population of Tokyo | 6,700,000 to 2,800,000 | between 1940 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | soldiers | the front | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to front=Destination | ||||
| 3 | evacuate | past · passive | children | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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