Vilnius, sentence 38
From Wikipedia, «Vilnius», 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.
He moved his court there, declared it his permanent seat and capital, and developed the surrounding area into a city he named Vilnius.
Who acts: Gediminas · What happens: move, declare, develop, name · To what, where: court, surrounding area, city, Vilnius
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 (Gediminas), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 court | nmod:poss |
| 4 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 moved | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 declared | punct |
| 7 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 declared | obj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 seat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seat | amod |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 declared | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 capital | cc |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seat | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 developed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 developed | cc |
| 16 | developed | develop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 area | det |
| 18 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 area | compound |
| 19 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 developed | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 developed | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 named | nsubj |
| 24 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 city | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Vilnius | Vilnius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 named | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Gediminas | Gediminas's court | there | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent court=Theme | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | Gediminas not said here | court | Gediminas's permanent seat and capital obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme seat=Attribute | |||
| 3 | develop | past | Gediminas not said here | the surrounding area | a city | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent area=Material into city=Product | |||
| 4 | name | past | Gediminas | Vilnius | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vilnius=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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