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title: Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian citizen, saved thousands of Hungarian J… — Budapest · tree and pragmatics
description: Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian citizen, saved thousands of Hungarian Jews posing as a Spanish diplomat. Who acts: Giorgio, Hungarian Jews. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Budapest» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Budapest, sentence 97

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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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Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian citizen, saved thousands of Hungarian Jews posing as a Spanish diplomat.

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**Who acts:** Giorgio, Hungarian Jews · **What happens:** save, pose · **To what, where:** thousands

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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 (Giorgio, Hungarian Jews), 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:97
# text = Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian citizen, saved thousands of Hungarian Jews posing as a Spanish diplomat.
1	Giorgio	Giorgio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Perlasca	Perlasca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Hungarian	hungarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	posing	pose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	diplomat	diplomat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past | Giorgio | thousands of Hungarian Jews |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |
| 2 | **pose** | gerund | Hungarian Jews *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a Spanish diplomat | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as diplomat=Attribute |

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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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