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title: The form Vilna made its way into Western European languages and, for… — Vilnius · tree and pragmatics
description: The form Vilna made its way into Western European languages and, for a long time, served as the standard designation for the city of Vilnius, especially in historical and diplomatic texts. Who acts: form. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vilnius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vilnius, sentence 27

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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.

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The form Vilna made its way into Western European languages and, for a long time, served as the standard designation for the city of Vilnius, especially in historical and diplomatic texts.

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**Who acts:** form · **What happens:** make, serve · **To what, where:** way, Western European languages, long time

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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 (form), 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:Vilnius:27
# text = The form Vilna made its way into Western European languages and, for a long time, served as the standard designation for the city of Vilnius, especially in historical and diplomatic texts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Vilna	Vilna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Vilnius	Vilnius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the form | form's way |  | Western European languages |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into language=Product |
| 2 | **serve** | participle |  | a long time *not said here* |  |  |  | as the standard designation for the city of Vilnius and historical texts | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as designation=Attribute |

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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, «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.

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