Canberra, sentence 138
From Wikipedia, «Canberra», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
In December 1988, the Australian Capital Territory was granted full self-government by the Commonwealth Parliament, a step proposed as early as 1965.
Who acts: Commonwealth Parliament · What happens: grant, propose · To what, where: Australian Capital Territory, step
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commonwealth Parliament), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 December | case |
| 2 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 granted | obl |
| 3 | 1988 | 1988 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 December | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 December | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Territory | det |
| 6 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Territory | amod |
| 7 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Territory | compound |
| 8 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 granted | aux:pass |
| 10 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 government | amod |
| 12 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 government | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 self | punct |
| 14 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 granted | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Parliament | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Parliament | det |
| 17 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Parliament | compound |
| 18 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 granted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 step | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 step | det |
| 21 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Parliament | appos |
| 22 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 step | acl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 early | advmod |
| 24 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 proposed | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 1965 | case |
| 26 | 1965 | 1965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 proposed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | the Commonwealth Parliament | the Australian Capital Territory | december | full self government obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal government=Theme | ||
| 2 | propose | participle | a step not said here | as 1965; early property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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