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title: The ensuing explosion sent flaming pieces of the church roof flying… — Luxembourg City · tree and pragmatics
description: The ensuing explosion sent flaming pieces of the church roof flying into a wide radius, setting fire to the mostly thatched or shingled rooves of buildings. Who acts: ensuing explosion, church roof. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Luxembourg City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Luxembourg City, sentence 25

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From Wikipedia, [«Luxembourg City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_City), 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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The ensuing explosion sent flaming pieces of the church roof flying into a wide radius, setting fire to the mostly thatched or shingled rooves of buildings.

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**Who acts:** ensuing explosion, church roof · **What happens:** ensue, send, flame, fly, set, thatch · **To what, where:** pieces, wide radius, fire

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Luxembourg City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ensuing explosion, church roof), 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:Luxembourg_City:25
# text = The ensuing explosion sent flaming pieces of the church roof flying into a wide radius, setting fire to the mostly thatched or shingled rooves of buildings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ensuing	ensue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	radius	radius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	shingled	shingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	rooves	roove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ensue** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past | the ensuing explosion |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flame** | gerund | the ensuing explosion *not said here* | pieces of the church roof |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | the church roof *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a wide radius *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into radius=Result |
| 5 | **set** | gerund | the church roof *not said here* | fire |  |  |  | to the thatched rooves of buildings | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
| 6 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shingle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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, «Luxembourg City», 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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