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title: It is mainly circular, centered on the original castle site. — Vilnius · tree and pragmatics
description: It is mainly circular, centered on the original castle site. Who acts: area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vilnius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vilnius, sentence 351

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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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It is mainly circular, centered on the original castle site.

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**Who acts:** area · **What happens:** be, center

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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 (area), 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:351
# text = It is mainly circular, centered on the original castle site.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	centered	center	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | area |  |  |  |  | circular, mainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **center** | participle | area *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the original castle site | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on site=Topic |

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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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