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title: The name may ultimately mean "forest river", from Celtic *Vedunia. — Vienna · tree and pragmatics
description: The name may ultimately mean "forest river", from Celtic *Vedunia. Who acts: name. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vienna» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vienna, sentence 29

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From Wikipedia, [«Vienna»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna), 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 name may ultimately mean "forest river", from Celtic \*Vedunia.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** forest river

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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 (name), 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:Vienna:29
# text = The name may ultimately mean "forest river", from Celtic *Vedunia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	*	*	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Vedunia	Vedunia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | may | the name | forest river |  |  |  | Celtic Vedunia *parataxis*; ultimately *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic |

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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, «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.

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