Vilnius, sentence 429

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.

Poczobutt began his astronomical observations in 1773, recording them in the journal (Cahiers des observations), and created the constellation Taurus Poniatovii.

Who acts: Poczobutt, Cahiers · What happens: begin, record, observation, create, observe · To what, where: astronomical observations, 1773, observations, journal, constellation

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 (Poczobutt, Cahiers), 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	Poczobutt	Poczobutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	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	5 observations	nmod:poss
4	astronomical	astronomical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 observations	amod
5	observations	observation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 began	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1773	case
7	1773	1773	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 began	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 recording	punct
9	recording	record	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 began	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 recording	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 journal	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 journal	det
13	journal	journal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recording	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 observations	punct
15	Cahiers	cahier	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 observations	nsubj
16	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 observations	compound
17	observations	observation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 journal	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 observations	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 created	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 created	cc
21	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 constellation	det
23	constellation	constellation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 created	obj
24	Taurus	Taurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 constellation	appos
25	Poniatovii	Poniatovii	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Taurus	flat
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	Poczobutt	Poczobutt's astronomical observations	1773	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent observation=Eventuality
2	record	gerund	Poczobutt not said here	observations = observation	the journal	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in journal=Destination
3	observation		Cahiers			tree rules
4	create	past		the constellation		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constellation=Result
5	observe		Poczobutt			nom observation «act transitive»: 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Vilnius, sentence 429