--- title: The internationally best-known Viennese artist was Falco, whose song… — Vienna · tree and pragmatics description: The internationally best-known Viennese artist was Falco, whose song ”Rock Me Amadeus” is the only German-language song to reach number 1 on the American Billboard Hot 100, which it held for three weeks in 1986. Who acts: known Viennese artist, American Billboard, Falco. 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The internationally best-known Viennese artist was Falco, whose song ”Rock Me Amadeus” is the only German-language song to reach number 1 on the American Billboard Hot 100, which it held for three weeks in 1986. **Who acts:** known Viennese artist, American Billboard, Falco · **What happens:** know, be, reach, hold, sing · **To what, where:** only language song, number, American Billboard, 1986 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vienna». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (known Viennese artist, American Billboard, Falco), 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:Vienna:203 # text = The internationally best-known Viennese artist was Falco, whose song ”Rock Me Amadeus” is the only German-language song to reach number 1 on the American Billboard Hot 100, which it held for three weeks in 1986. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 2 internationally internationally ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 6 Viennese viennese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 artist artist NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 9 Falco Falco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Rock rock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 15 Me Me PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 Amadeus Amadeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 21 German German ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 27 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 Billboard billboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 Hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 1986 1986 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | participle | | | | | | internationally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the known Viennese artist | | | | | Falco *nsubj*; Me *obj*; rock *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | the only language song | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reach** | to-infinitive | | number | | the American Billboard | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent number=Theme | | 5 | **hold** | past | the American Billboard | | | 1986 | week | artist *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1986=Location | | 6 | **sing** | | Falco | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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, «Vienna», 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 202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vienna/202/) - next →: [sentence 204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vienna/204/) - ↑ back to [Vienna](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vienna/)