Tokyo, sentence 89
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.
Around this time, the 31-metre height restriction, imposed on all buildings since 1920, was relaxed due to the increased demand for office buildings and advancements in earthquake-proof construction.
What happens: impose, be, increase · To what, where: metre height restriction, buildings
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: 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 relaxed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 restriction | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 restriction | det |
| 6 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 metre | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 31 | punct |
| 8 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restriction | compound |
| 9 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restriction | compound |
| 10 | restriction | restriction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 imposed | punct |
| 12 | imposed | impose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 restriction | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 buildings | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 buildings | det |
| 15 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 imposed | obl |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 17 1920 | case |
| 17 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 imposed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 relaxed | cop |
| 20 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 demand | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 due | fixed |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 demand | det |
| 24 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 demand | amod |
| 25 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 relaxed | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 buildings | case |
| 27 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 buildings | compound |
| 28 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 demand | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 advancements | cc |
| 30 | advancements | advancement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 buildings | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 construction | case |
| 32 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 proof | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 earthquake | punct |
| 34 | proof | proof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 construction | amod |
| 35 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 buildings | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 relaxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impose | participle | the metre height restriction not said here | all buildings | since 1920 | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | time | due the increased demand for office buildings in proof construction and advancements; relaxed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | increase | participle | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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