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title: All the chapels except the four closest to the church were destroyed… — Vilnius · tree and pragmatics
description: All the chapels except the four closest to the church were destroyed by Soviet authorities overnight with dynamite in 1962. Who acts: Soviet authorities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vilnius» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vilnius, sentence 571

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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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All the chapels except the four closest to the church were destroyed by Soviet authorities overnight with dynamite in 1962.

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**Who acts:** Soviet authorities · **What happens:** destroy · **To what, where:** chapels

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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 (Soviet authorities), 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:571
# text = All the chapels except the four closest to the church were destroyed by Soviet authorities overnight with dynamite in 1962.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chapels	chapel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:agent	_	_
16	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dynamite	dynamite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1962	1962	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past · passive | Soviet authorities | all chapels except the closest to the church |  |  |  | with dynamite in 1962; overnight *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with dynamite=Instrument |

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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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