--- title: Prague had a large number of German speakers in 1848, but by 1880 th… — Prague · tree and pragmatics description: Prague had a large number of German speakers in 1848, but by 1880 the number of German speakers had decreased to 14 percent (42,000), and by 1910 to 6.7 percent (37,000), due to a massive increase in the city's overall population caused by the influx of Czechs from the rest of Bohemia and Moravia an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Prague/117/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Prague](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Prague/) / 117 # Prague, sentence 117 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. Prague had a large number of German speakers in 1848, but by 1880 the number of German speakers had decreased to 14 percent (42,000), and by 1910 to 6.7 percent (37,000), due to a massive increase in the city's overall population caused by the influx of Czechs from the rest of Bohemia and Moravia and the increasing prestige and importance of the Czech language as part of the Czech National Revival. **Who acts:** Prague · **What happens:** have, decrease, cause, increase · **To what, where:** large number, number, overall population 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 (Prague), 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:Prague:117 # text = Prague had a large number of German speakers in 1848, but by 1880 the number of German speakers had decreased to 14 percent (42,000), and by 1910 to 6.7 percent (37,000), due to a massive increase in the city's overall population caused by the influx of Czechs from the rest of Bohemia and Moravia and the increasing prestige and importance of the Czech language as part of the Czech National Revival. 1 Prague Prague PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1848 1848 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1880 1880 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 decreased decrease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 42,000 42000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 1910 1910 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 6.7 6.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nmod _ _ 34 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 37,000 37,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 43 case _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 increase increase NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 47 's 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 overall overall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 50 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 acl _ _ 51 by by ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 influx influx NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 Czechs czech NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nmod _ _ 56 from from ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ _ 59 of of ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 Bohemia Bohemia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nmod _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 Moravia Moravia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 conj _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 65 increasing increase VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 66 amod _ _ 66 prestige prestige NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 importance importance NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 69 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 71 Czech Czech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 compound _ _ 72 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nmod _ _ 73 as as ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 nmod _ _ 75 of of ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 77 Czech Czech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 79 compound _ _ 78 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 79 amod _ _ 79 Revival Revival PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 80 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Prague | a large number of German speakers in 1848 | | | | by 1910 to 6.7 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 2 | **decrease** | past · perfect · passive | | the number of German speakers | | | | by 1880; to 14 percent *result* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: subject=Patient by 1880=Extent to percent=Result | | 3 | **cause** | participle | | the city's overall population *not said here* | | | | by the influx of Czechs from the rest of Bohemia and Moravia and the increasing prestige and importance of the Czech language as part of the Czech National Revival | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 4 | **increase** | gerund | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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, «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. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Prague/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Prague/118/) - ↑ back to [Prague](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Prague/)