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title: Poczobutt began his astronomical observations in 1773, recording the… — Vilnius · tree and pragmatics
description: Poczobutt began his astronomical observations in 1773, recording them in the journal (Cahiers des observations), and created the constellation Taurus Poniatovii. Who acts: Poczobutt, Cahiers. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vilnius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vilnius, sentence 429

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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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Poczobutt began his astronomical observations in 1773, recording them in the journal (Cahiers des observations), and created the constellation Taurus Poniatovii.

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**Who acts:** Poczobutt, Cahiers · **What happens:** begin, record, observation, create, observe · **To what, where:** astronomical observations, 1773, observations, journal, constellation

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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 (Poczobutt, Cahiers), 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:429
# text = Poczobutt began his astronomical observations in 1773, recording them in the journal (Cahiers des observations), and created the constellation Taurus Poniatovii.
1	Poczobutt	Poczobutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	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	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	astronomical	astronomical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	observations	observation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1773	1773	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	recording	record	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	journal	journal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Cahiers	cahier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	observations	observation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	created	create	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	constellation	constellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	Taurus	Taurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	Poniatovii	Poniatovii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	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 | **begin** | past | Poczobutt | Poczobutt's astronomical observations |  | 1773 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent observation=Eventuality |
| 2 | **record** | gerund | Poczobutt *not said here* | observations *= observation* |  | the journal |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in journal=Destination |
| 3 | **observation** |  | Cahiers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **create** | past |  | the constellation |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constellation=Result |
| 5 | **observe** |  | Poczobutt |  |  |  |  |  | nom observation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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