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title: In 1757, during the Seven Years' War, Prussian bombardment destroyed… — Prague · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1757, during the Seven Years' War, Prussian bombardment destroyed more than one-quarter of the city and heavily damaged St. Vitus Cathedral. Who acts: Prussian bombardment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Prague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Prague, sentence 105

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From Wikipedia, [«Prague»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague), 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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In 1757, during the Seven Years' War, Prussian bombardment destroyed more than one-quarter of the city and heavily damaged St. Vitus Cathedral.

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**Who acts:** Prussian bombardment · **What happens:** destroy, damage · **To what, where:** one quarter, 1757, Vitus Cathedral

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Prague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prussian bombardment), 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:Prague:105
# text = In 1757, during the Seven Years' War, Prussian bombardment destroyed more than one-quarter of the city and heavily damaged St. Vitus Cathedral.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1757	1757	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Years	Year	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	Prussian	prussian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bombardment	bombardment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
25	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Vitus	Vitus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past | Prussian bombardment | one quarter of the city |  | 1757 during the Seven Years's War |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient |
| 2 | **damage** | participle | Prussian bombardment *not said here* | Vitus Cathedral |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cathedral=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, «Prague», 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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