Warsaw, sentence 8
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.
The city rose to prominence after 1596, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków.
Who acts: city, Sigismund · What happens: rise, decide, move · To what, where: prominence, Polish capital
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 (city, Sigismund), 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 | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 prominence | case |
| 5 | prominence | prominence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 1596 | case |
| 7 | 1596 | 1596 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 decided | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 decided | advmod |
| 10 | Sigismund | Sigismund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 decided | nsubj |
| 11 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 10 Sigismund | flat |
| 12 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 move | mark |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 decided | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 capital | det |
| 16 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 capital | amod |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 move | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 court | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 court | nmod:poss |
| 20 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 court | amod |
| 21 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 capital | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Kraków | case |
| 23 | Kraków | Kraków | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 court | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the city | prominence | after 1596 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prominence=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | decide | past | Sigismund | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | move not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sigismund not said here | the Polish capital and City's royal court from Kraków | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent capital=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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