Canberra, sentence 61
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.
He was guided to the region by a local Aboriginal girl who showed him the fine lands of her Pialligo clan.
Who acts: local Aboriginal girl · What happens: guide, show · To what, where: Ainslie, region, fine lands
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 (local Aboriginal girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 guided | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guided | aux:pass |
| 3 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 region | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 region | det |
| 6 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guided | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 9 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 10 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guided | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lands | det |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lands | amod |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 showed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 clan | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 clan | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Pialligo | Pialligo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 clan | compound |
| 21 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lands | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | past · passive | a local Aboriginal girl | Ainslie | the region | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to region=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | past | a local Aboriginal girl | the fine lands of girl's Pialligo clan | Ainslie | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient land=Topic |
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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