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title: The city rose to prominence after 1596, when Sigismund III decided t… — Warsaw · tree and pragmatics
description: The city rose to prominence after 1596, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Who acts: city, Sigismund. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Warsaw» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Warsaw, sentence 8

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From Wikipedia, [«Warsaw»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw), 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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The city rose to prominence after 1596, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków.

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**Who acts:** city, Sigismund · **What happens:** rise, decide, move · **To what, where:** prominence, Polish capital

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Warsaw». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, Sigismund), 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:Warsaw:8
# text = The city rose to prominence after 1596, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	prominence	prominence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1596	1596	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	Sigismund	Sigismund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Kraków	Kraków	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the city |  |  | prominence | after 1596 |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to prominence=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **decide** | past | Sigismund |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **move** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sigismund *not said here* | the Polish capital and City's royal court from Kraków |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent capital=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, «Warsaw», 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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