--- title: Many writers were born in Vilnius, lived there, or are alumni of Vil… — Vilnius · tree and pragmatics description: Many writers were born in Vilnius, lived there, or are alumni of Vilnius University; they include Konstantinas Sirvydas, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Antoni Gorecki, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Antoni Edward Odyniec, Michał Józef Römer, Adam Mickiewicz, Władysław Syrokomla, Józef Mackiewicz, Romain Gar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vilnius/141/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Vilnius](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vilnius/) / 141 # Vilnius, sentence 141 From Wikipedia, [«Vilnius»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius), 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. Many writers were born in Vilnius, lived there, or are alumni of Vilnius University; they include Konstantinas Sirvydas, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Antoni Gorecki, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Antoni Edward Odyniec, Michał Józef Römer, Adam Mickiewicz, Władysław Syrokomla, Józef Mackiewicz, Romain Gary, Juliusz Słowacki, Simonas Daukantas, Mykolas Biržiška, Petras Cvirka, Kazys Bradūnas, Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. **Who acts:** writers · **What happens:** bear, live, be, include, laureate · **To what, where:** Many writers, Vilnius, alumni, Konstantinas, Czesław This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vilnius». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (writers), 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:Vilnius:141 # text = Many writers were born in Vilnius, lived there, or are alumni of Vilnius University; they include Konstantinas Sirvydas, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Antoni Gorecki, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Antoni Edward Odyniec, Michał Józef Römer, Adam Mickiewicz, Władysław Syrokomla, Józef Mackiewicz, Romain Gary, Juliusz Słowacki, Simonas Daukantas, Mykolas Biržiška, Petras Cvirka, Kazys Bradūnas, Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Vilnius Vilnius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 alumni alumnus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Vilnius Vilnius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 University University PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 include include VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 Konstantinas Konstantinas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 Sirvydas Sirvydas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Maciej Maciej PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Kazimierz Kazimierz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 Sarbiewski Sarbiewski PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Antoni Antoni PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 28 Gorecki Gorecki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Józef Józef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Ignacy Ignacy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 32 Kraszewski Kraszewski PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Antoni Antoni PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 35 Edward Edward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 Odyniec Odyniec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Michał Michał PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 39 Józef Józef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 40 Römer Römer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Mickiewicz Mickiewicz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Władysław Władysław PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 46 Syrokomla Syrokomla PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 Józef Józef PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 49 Mackiewicz Mackiewicz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 Romain Romain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 52 Gary Gary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 Juliusz Juliusz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 55 Słowacki Słowacki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 57 Simonas Simonas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 58 Daukantas Daukantas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 Mykolas Mykolas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 61 Biržiška Biržiška PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 Petras Petras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 64 Cvirka Cvirka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 66 Kazys Kazys PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 67 Bradūnas Bradūnas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 69 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 70 laureate laureate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 71 Czesław Czesław PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 obj _ _ 72 Miłosz Miłosz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 71 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past · passive | | Many writers | | Vilnius | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **live** | past | | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | alumni | | | | of Vilnius University | tree rules | | 4 | **include** | present | writers *= writer* | Konstantinas and Maciej Kazimierz and Antoni and Józef Ignacy and Antoni and Michał and Adam Mickiewicz and Władysław and Józef and Romain and Juliusz and Simonas and Mykolas and Petras and Kazys and Nobel | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent konstantinas=Theme | | 5 | **laureate** | infinitive | writers *= writer* *not said here* | Czesław | | | | | tree rules | 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, «Vilnius», 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 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vilnius/140/) - next →: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vilnius/142/) - ↑ back to [Vilnius](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vilnius/)