Vilnius, sentence 27
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The form Vilna made its way into Western European languages and, for a long time, served as the standard designation for the city of Vilnius, especially in historical and diplomatic texts.
Who acts: form · What happens: make, serve · To what, where: way, Western European languages, long time
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vilnius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (form), 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 | 2 form | det |
| 2 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | Vilna | Vilna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 form | appos |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 languages | case |
| 8 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 languages | amod |
| 9 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 languages | amod |
| 10 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 time | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 served | punct |
| 18 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 designation | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 designation | det |
| 21 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 designation | amod |
| 22 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 served | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 designation | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Vilnius | case |
| 27 | Vilnius | Vilnius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 city | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 texts | punct |
| 29 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 34 texts | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 texts | case |
| 31 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 texts | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 diplomatic | cc |
| 33 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 historical | conj |
| 34 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 designation | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the form | form's way | Western European languages | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into language=Product | |||
| 2 | serve | participle | a long time not said here | as the standard designation for the city of Vilnius and historical texts | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as designation=Attribute |
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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