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title: One drama is Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., which introduced the word "r… — Czech Republic · tree and pragmatics
description: One drama is Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., which introduced the word "robot". Who acts: One drama, play. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Czech Republic» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Czech Republic, sentence 428

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From Wikipedia, [«Czech Republic»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic), 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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One drama is Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., which introduced the word "robot".

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**Who acts:** One drama, play · **What happens:** be, introduce · **To what, where:** play, word

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Czech Republic». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One drama, play), 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:Czech_Republic:428
# text = One drama is Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., which introduced the word "robot".
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	Karel	Karel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Čapek	Čapek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	R.U.R	R.U.R	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | One drama | Karel's play |  |  |  | Karel *nmod:poss*; R.U.R *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **introduce** | past | Karel's play | the word |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |

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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, «Czech Republic», 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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