Vilnius, sentence 427
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The Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory, established in 1753 at the initiative of Thomas Zebrowski, was one of Europe's first observatories and the first in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Who acts: University Astronomical Observatory · What happens: establish, be · To what, where: University Astronomical Observatory, 1753, one
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 (University Astronomical Observatory), 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 | 5 Observatory | det |
| 2 | Vilnius | Vilnius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 University | compound |
| 3 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Observatory | compound |
| 4 | Astronomical | Astronomical | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Observatory | compound |
| 5 | Observatory | Observatory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 established | punct |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Observatory | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1753 | case |
| 9 | 1753 | 1753 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 established | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 initiative | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 initiative | det |
| 12 | initiative | initiative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 established | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Thomas | case |
| 14 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 initiative | nmod |
| 15 | Zebrowski | Zebrowski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Thomas | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Observatory | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 observatories | case |
| 20 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 observatories | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Europe | case |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 observatories | amod |
| 23 | observatories | observatory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 first | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 first | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 observatories | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Commonwealth | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Commonwealth | det |
| 29 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Lithuanian | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Polish | punct |
| 31 | Lithuanian | lithuanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Commonwealth | amod |
| 32 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 first | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | participle | the University Astronomical Observatory not said here | 1753 | at the initiative of Thomas | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the University Astronomical Observatory | one | of Europe's first observatories | tree rules |
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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