Pretoria, sentence 140
From Wikipedia, «Pretoria», 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 R511 runs north–south from Sandton towards Brits and barely by-passes Pretoria to the west.
Who acts: R511 · What happens: run, pass · To what, where: south Sandton, Pretoria, west
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Pretoria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (R511), 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 R511 | det |
| 2 | R511 | r511 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | north | north | ADV | _ | 3 runs | advmod |
| 5 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sandton | punct |
| 6 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 Sandton | compound |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Sandton | case |
| 8 | Sandton | Sandton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | obl |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 Brits | case |
| 10 | Brits | brit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 runs | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 passes | cc |
| 12 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 15 passes | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 passes | mark |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 by | punct |
| 15 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 runs | conj |
| 16 | Pretoria | Pretoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 passes | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 west | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 west | det |
| 19 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the R511 | south Sandton | towards Brits; north property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards brit=Destination | |||
| 2 | pass | present | the R511 not said here | Pretoria | the west | barely property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pretoria=Theme to west=Recipient |
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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