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title: Roman Josi (born 1990), professional ice hockey player, selected to… — Bern · tree and pragmatics
description: Roman Josi (born 1990), professional ice hockey player, selected to play for Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics Who acts: Roman Josi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bern» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bern, sentence 341

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From Wikipedia, [«Bern»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Roman Josi (born 1990), professional ice hockey player, selected to play for Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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**Who acts:** Roman Josi · **What happens:** bear, select, play · **To what, where:** 1990, professional hockey player, 2010 Winter Olympics, Roman Josi

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bern». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roman Josi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bern:341
# text = Roman Josi (born 1990), professional ice hockey player, selected to play for Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics
1	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Josi	Josi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle | Roman Josi *not said here* | 1990 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1990=Patient |
| 2 | **select** | participle |  | professional hockey player *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the 2010 Winter Olympics |  | for Switzerland | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for switzerland=Eventuality |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bern», 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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