--- title: Their demolition, which would signify the opening of the city, took… — Luxembourg City · tree and pragmatics description: Their demolition, which would signify the opening of the city, took sixteen years, cost 1.5 million gold francs, and required the destruction of over 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates, batteries, barracks, etc. Furthermore, the Prussian garrison was to be withdrawn. 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Their demolition, which would signify the opening of the city, took sixteen years, cost 1.5 million gold francs, and required the destruction of over 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates, batteries, barracks, etc. Furthermore, the Prussian garrison was to be withdrawn. **Who acts:** demolition, cost, reasons · **What happens:** signify, take, franc, require, withdraw, demolish · **To what, where:** opening, destruction, Prussian garrison, 24 km 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 (demolition, cost, reasons), 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:Luxembourg_City:37 # text = Their demolition, which would signify the opening of the city, took sixteen years, cost 1.5 million gold francs, and required the destruction of over 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates, batteries, barracks, etc. Furthermore, the Prussian garrison was to be withdrawn. 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 demolition demolition NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 signify signify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 opening opening NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 1.5 1.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 compound _ _ 19 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 francs franc NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 required require VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 over over ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 underground underground ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 defences defence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 ha ha NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 casemates casemate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 barracks barrack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 etc. etc. NOUN FW Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 45 Furthermore furthermore ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 Prussian prussian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 garrison garrison NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 withdrawn withdraw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **signify** | would | reasons's demolition | the opening of the city | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot opening=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | reasons's demolition | | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **franc** | | cost | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **require** | past | | the destruction of 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates and batteries and barracks | | | | etc. *obj* | tree rules | | 5 | **withdraw** | past · passive | | the Prussian garrison | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **demolish** | | reasons *= reason* | | | | | | nom demolition «event transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **destroy** | | | 24 km of underground defences and 4 ha of casemates and batteries and barracks | | | | | nom destruction «act 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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Luxembourg_City/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Luxembourg_City/38/) - ↑ back to [Luxembourg City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Luxembourg_City/)