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title: He moved his court there, declared it his permanent seat and capital… — Vilnius · tree and pragmatics
description: He moved his court there, declared it his permanent seat and capital, and developed the surrounding area into a city he named Vilnius. Who acts: Gediminas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vilnius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vilnius, sentence 38

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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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He moved his court there, declared it his permanent seat and capital, and developed the surrounding area into a city he named Vilnius.

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**Who acts:** Gediminas · **What happens:** move, declare, develop, name · **To what, where:** court, surrounding area, city, Vilnius

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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 (Gediminas), 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:38
# text = He moved his court there, declared it his permanent seat and capital, and developed the surrounding area into a city he named Vilnius.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	developed	develop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	Vilnius	Vilnius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | Gediminas | Gediminas's court |  | there |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Gediminas *not said here* | court |  |  |  | Gediminas's permanent seat and capital *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme seat=Attribute |
| 3 | **develop** | past | Gediminas *not said here* | the surrounding area |  | a city |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent area=Material into city=Product |
| 4 | **name** | past | Gediminas | Vilnius |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vilnius=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, «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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