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title: Known as "Yerushalayim D'Lita" (the Jerusalem of Lithuania), Vilnius… — Vilnius · tree and pragmatics
description: Known as "Yerushalayim D'Lita" (the Jerusalem of Lithuania), Vilnius had been a world centre for Torah study and had a large Jewish population since the 18th century. Who acts: Vilnius. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vilnius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vilnius, sentence 535

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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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Known as "Yerushalayim D'Lita" (the Jerusalem of Lithuania), Vilnius had been a world centre for Torah study and had a large Jewish population since the 18th century.

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**Who acts:** Vilnius · **What happens:** know, be, have · **To what, where:** world centre, large Jewish population

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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 (Vilnius), 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:535
# text = Known as "Yerushalayim D'Lita" (the Jerusalem of Lithuania), Vilnius had been a world centre for Torah study and had a large Jewish population since the 18th century.
1	Known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Yerushalayim	Yerushalayim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	D'Lita	D'Lita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	Vilnius	Vilnius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Torah	Torah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	since	since	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as Yerushalayim | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as yerushalayim=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | Vilnius | a world centre |  |  |  | for Torah study | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | a large Jewish population |  |  | century |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent population=Patient |

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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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