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title: There is still something of an atmosphere of fin-de-siècle about the… — Budapest · tree and pragmatics
description: There is still something of an atmosphere of fin-de-siècle about the place, and all around the inner courtyard there are marble tablets recalling the thanks of patrons who were cured there. Who acts: something, marble tablets. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Budapest» with its dependency tree and pragmat
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# Budapest, sentence 449

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From Wikipedia, [«Budapest»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest), 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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There is still something of an atmosphere of fin-de-siècle about the place, and all around the inner courtyard there are marble tablets recalling the thanks of patrons who were cured there.

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**Who acts:** something, marble tablets · **What happens:** be, recall, cure · **To what, where:** thanks, patrons

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Budapest». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, marble tablets), 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:Budapest:449
# text = There is still something of an atmosphere of fin-de-siècle about the place, and all around the inner courtyard there are marble tablets recalling the thanks of patrons who were cured there.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	siècle	siècle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
28	recalling	recall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	patrons	patron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | something of a atmosphere of fin de siècle about the place |  |  | there | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **recall** | gerund | marble tablets *not said here* | the thanks of patrons |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** | past · passive |  | patrons |  | there |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source |

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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, «Budapest», 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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