Vienna, sentence 203
From Wikipedia, «Vienna», 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.
The internationally best-known Viennese artist was Falco, whose song ”Rock Me Amadeus” is the only German-language song to reach number 1 on the American Billboard Hot 100, which it held for three weeks in 1986.
Who acts: known Viennese artist, American Billboard, Falco · What happens: know, be, reach, hold, sing · To what, where: only language song, number, American Billboard, 1986 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vienna». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (known Viennese artist, American Billboard, Falco), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 artist | det |
| 2 | internationally | internationally | ADV | _ | 5 known | advmod |
| 3 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 internationally | obl |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 internationally | punct |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 artist | amod |
| 6 | Viennese | viennese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 artist | amod |
| 7 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Rock | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Rock | cop |
| 9 | Falco | Falco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rock | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 song | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 song | nmod:poss |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Falco | appos |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 song | punct |
| 14 | Rock | rock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 song | parataxis |
| 15 | Me | Me | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rock | obj |
| 16 | Amadeus | Amadeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Me | flat |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rock | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 song | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 song | det |
| 20 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 song | amod |
| 21 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 language | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 German | punct |
| 23 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 song | compound |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 reach | mark |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 song | acl |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | obj |
| 28 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 number | flat |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Billboard | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Billboard | det |
| 31 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Billboard | amod |
| 32 | Billboard | billboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | obl |
| 33 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 100 | amod |
| 34 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 Billboard | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 held | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 held | nsubj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 held | nsubj |
| 38 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Billboard | parataxis |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 weeks | case |
| 40 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 weeks | nummod |
| 41 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 held | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 1986 | case |
| 43 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 held | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | internationally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the known Viennese artist | Falco nsubj; Me obj; rock property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the only language song | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | number | the American Billboard | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | past | the American Billboard | 1986 | week | artist nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1986=Location | ||
| 6 | sing | Falco | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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