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title: In the 16th and 17th centuries, Ottoman forces advanced toward Vienn… — Vienna · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 16th and 17th centuries, Ottoman forces advanced toward Vienna on two notable occasions: the Siege of Vienna in 1529 and the Battle of Vienna in 1683, both of which resulted in the city's successful defence. Who acts: Ottoman forces, both, city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vienna» with its dep
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# Vienna, sentence 53

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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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In the 16th and 17th centuries, Ottoman forces advanced toward Vienna on two notable occasions: the Siege of Vienna in 1529 and the Battle of Vienna in 1683, both of which resulted in the city's successful defence.

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**Who acts:** Ottoman forces, both, city · **What happens:** advance, result, defend · **To what, where:** two notable occasions, successful defence

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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 (Ottoman forces, both, city), 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:53
# text = In the 16th and 17th centuries, Ottoman forces advanced toward Vienna on two notable occasions: the Siege of Vienna in 1529 and the Battle of Vienna in 1683, both of which resulted in the city's successful defence.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	16th	16th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	17th	17th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	_
6	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	notable	notable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1529	1529	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1683	1683	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nmod	_	_
35	resulted	result	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | past | Ottoman forces |  |  | two notable occasions | century | toward Vienna; in 1683 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward vienna=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **result** | past | both |  |  | the city's successful defence |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in defence=Location |
| 3 | **defend** |  | the city |  |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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