Wellington, sentence 113
From Wikipedia, «Wellington», 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.
While masonry and structural steel have subsequently been used in building construction, especially for office buildings, timber framing remains the primary structural component of almost all residential construction.
Who acts: timber framing · What happens: use, remain, compose · To what, where: masonry, building construction, primary structural component, residential construction
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Wellington». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (timber framing), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 used | mark |
| 2 | masonry | masonry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 steel | cc |
| 4 | structural | structural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steel | amod |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 masonry | conj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux |
| 7 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 9 used | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 remains | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 construction | case |
| 11 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 construction | compound |
| 12 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buildings | punct |
| 14 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 buildings | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 buildings | case |
| 16 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buildings | compound |
| 17 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 used | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 remains | punct |
| 19 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 framing | compound |
| 20 | framing | framing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remains | nsubj |
| 21 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 component | det |
| 23 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 component | amod |
| 24 | structural | structural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 component | amod |
| 25 | component | component | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remains | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 construction | case |
| 27 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 construction | advmod |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 construction | det |
| 29 | residential | residential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 construction | amod |
| 30 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 component | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · perfect · passive | masonry and structural steel | building construction | for office buildings; subsequently property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for building=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | remain | present | timber framing | the primary structural component of all residential construction | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme component=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | compose | all residential construction | nom component «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Wellington», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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