Warsaw, sentence 529
From Wikipedia, «Warsaw», 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.
A greedy merchant also heard her songs; he followed the fishermen and captured the mermaid.
Who acts: greedy merchant, Warszowa, merchant · What happens: hear, follow, capture, sing · To what, where: songs, fishermen, mermaid
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Warsaw». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greedy merchant, Warszowa, merchant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 songs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fishermen | det |
| 12 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 followed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 captured | cc |
| 14 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mermaid | det |
| 16 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 captured | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a greedy merchant | merchant's songs | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | Warszowa | the fishermen | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | capture | past | Warszowa not said here | the mermaid | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | merchant | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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