Vilnius, sentence 9
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Since the 13th century until the mid-17th century the Vilnius Castle Complex had served as the residence of the Lithuanian monarchs.
Who acts: Vilnius Castle Complex · What happens: serve
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 (Vilnius Castle Complex), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 served | obl |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 8 century | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 century | det |
| 7 | mid-17th | mid-17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 8 century | amod |
| 8 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 century | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Complex | det |
| 10 | Vilnius | Vilnius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Complex | compound |
| 11 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Complex | compound |
| 12 | Complex | Complex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 served | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 served | aux |
| 14 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 residence | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 residence | det |
| 17 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 served | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 monarchs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 monarchs | det |
| 20 | Lithuanian | lithuanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 monarchs | amod |
| 21 | monarchs | monarch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 residence | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · perfect | the Vilnius Castle Complex | century | as the residence of the Lithuanian monarchs | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as residence=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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