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title: It sits on the Danube, and is traversed by the highly regulated Wien… — Vienna · tree and pragmatics
description: It sits on the Danube, and is traversed by the highly regulated Wienfluss (Vienna River). Who acts: city, regulated Wienfluss. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vienna» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vienna, sentence 6

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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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It sits on the Danube, and is traversed by the highly regulated Wienfluss (Vienna River).

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**Who acts:** city, regulated Wienfluss · **What happens:** sit, traverse · **To what, where:** Danube

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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 (city, regulated Wienfluss), 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:6
# text = It sits on the Danube, and is traversed by the highly regulated Wienfluss (Vienna River).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	traversed	traverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	regulated	regulated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Wienfluss	Wienfluss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | city |  |  | the Danube |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on danube=Location |
| 2 | **traverse** | present · passive | the regulated Wienfluss |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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