--- title: The mayor, based at the Primate's Palace, is the city's top executiv… — Bratislava · tree and pragmatics description: The mayor, based at the Primate's Palace, is the city's top executive officer and is elected to a four-year term of office. Who acts: mayor. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bratislava» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bratislava/223/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Bratislava](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bratislava/) / 223 # Bratislava, sentence 223 From Wikipedia, [«Bratislava»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava), 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. The mayor, based at the Primate's Palace, is the city's top executive officer and is elected to a four-year term of office. **Who acts:** mayor · **What happens:** base, be, elect, term · **To what, where:** mayor, Palace, top executive officer, office This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bratislava». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mayor), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Bratislava:223 # text = The mayor, based at the Primate's Palace, is the city's top executive officer and is elected to a four-year term of office. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mayor mayor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Primate Primate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 Palace Palace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 executive executive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **base** | participle | | the mayor *not said here* | | the Primate's Palace | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the mayor | the city's top executive officer | | | | the city *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 3 | **elect** | present · passive | the mayor *not said here* | | | | | to a year term of office | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: to term=Attribute | | 4 | **term** | | | office | | | | | nom term «communication 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, «Bratislava», 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. - ← previous: [sentence 222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bratislava/222/) - next →: [sentence 224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bratislava/224/) - ↑ back to [Bratislava](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Bratislava/)