Canberra, sentence 263
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.
The headquarters of many Australian Public Service agencies are located in Canberra, and Canberra is also host to several Australian Defence Force establishments, most notably the Australian Defence Force headquarters and, which is a naval communications centre that is being converted into a tri-service, multi-user depot.
Who acts: Canberra, several Australian Force establishments · What happens: locate, be, convert · To what, where: headquarters, Canberra, host, communications centre, tri service
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 (Canberra, several Australian Force establishments), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 headquarters | det |
| 2 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 located | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 agencies | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 agencies | amod |
| 5 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 agencies | amod |
| 6 | Public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 agencies | amod |
| 7 | Service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agencies | compound |
| 8 | agencies | agency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 headquarters | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 located | aux:pass |
| 10 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Canberra | case |
| 12 | Canberra | Canberra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 located | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 host | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 host | cc |
| 15 | Canberra | Canberra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 host | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 host | cop |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 host | advmod |
| 18 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 located | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 establishments | case |
| 20 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 establishments | amod |
| 21 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 establishments | amod |
| 22 | Defence | Defence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Force | compound |
| 23 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 establishments | compound |
| 24 | establishments | establishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 host | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 headquarters | punct |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 notably | advmod |
| 27 | notably | notably | ADV | _ | 32 headquarters | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 headquarters | det |
| 29 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 headquarters | amod |
| 30 | Defence | Defence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Force | compound |
| 31 | Force | Force | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 headquarters | compound |
| 32 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 establishments | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 centre | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 centre | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 centre | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 centre | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 centre | det |
| 38 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 communications | amod |
| 39 | communications | communication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 centre | compound |
| 40 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 establishments | conj |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 converted | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 converted | aux:pass |
| 43 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 converted | aux:pass |
| 44 | converted | convert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 centre | acl:relcl |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 service | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 service | det |
| 47 | tri | tri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 service | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 tri | punct |
| 49 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 converted | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 depot | punct |
| 51 | multi-user | multi-user | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 depot | compound |
| 52 | depot | depot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 service | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 located | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locate | present · passive | the headquarters of many Australian Public Service agencies | Canberra | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Canberra | host | to several Australian Force establishments and the Australian Force headquarters and a communications centre | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | several Australian Force establishments and the Australian Force headquarters and a communications centre | a communications centre | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | convert | present · passive | a communications centre | into a tri service and multi-user depot result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into service=Result |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Canberra», 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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