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title: The persecution of Jews began almost immediately: Viennese Jews were… — Vienna · tree and pragmatics
description: The persecution of Jews began almost immediately: Viennese Jews were harassed and hounded, and their homes and businesses plundered. Who acts: persecution, homes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vienna» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vienna, sentence 83

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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 persecution of Jews began almost immediately: Viennese Jews were harassed and hounded, and their homes and businesses plundered.

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**Who acts:** persecution, homes · **What happens:** begin, harass, hound, plunder, persecute · **To what, where:** Viennese Jews, Jews

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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 (persecution, homes), 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:83
# text = The persecution of Jews began almost immediately: Viennese Jews were harassed and hounded, and their homes and businesses plundered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Viennese	viennese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	harassed	harass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hounded	hound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	businesses	business	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	plundered	plunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the persecution of Jews |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **harass** | past · passive |  | Viennese Jews |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hound** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **plunder** | past | Jews's homes and businesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **persecute** |  |  | Jews |  |  |  |  | nom persecution «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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