Pretoria, sentence 222
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.
And according to the museum: "As South African museums in Cape Town and Johannesburg already had good collections of 17th, 18th and 19th century European art, it was decided to focus on compiling a representative collection of South African art" making it somewhat unusual compared to its contemporaries.
Who acts: museum · What happens: accord, decide, focus, compile, make, compare · To what, where: Collection, representative collection
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 (museum), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 museum | cc |
| 2 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 museum | case |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 according | fixed |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 museum | det |
| 5 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 decided | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 decided | punct |
| 8 | As | as | ADP | _ | 11 museums | case |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 museums | compound |
| 10 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 museums | amod |
| 11 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Town | case |
| 13 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | compound |
| 14 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 museums | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Johannesburg | cc |
| 16 | Johannesburg | Johannesburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Town | conj |
| 17 | already | already | ADV | _ | 18 had | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 decided | aux |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 collections | amod |
| 20 | collections | collection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 17th | case |
| 22 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 20 collections | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 century | punct |
| 24 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 27 century | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 19th | cc |
| 26 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 24 18th | conj |
| 27 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 collections | conj |
| 28 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 art | amod |
| 29 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 century | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 decided | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 decided | aux:pass |
| 33 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 museum | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 focus | mark |
| 35 | focus | focus | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 decided | xcomp |
| 36 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 37 compiling | mark |
| 37 | compiling | compile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 focus | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 collection | det |
| 39 | representative | representative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 collection | amod |
| 40 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 compiling | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 art | case |
| 42 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 art | compound |
| 43 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 art | amod |
| 44 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 collection | nmod |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 making | punct |
| 46 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 art | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 making | obj |
| 48 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 49 unusual | advmod |
| 49 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 making | xcomp |
| 50 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 unusual | advcl |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 contemporaries | case |
| 52 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 contemporaries | nmod:poss |
| 53 | contemporaries | contemporary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 compared | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 museum | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | decide in a quote | past · passive | the museum not said here | Collection | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | focus not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the museum not said here | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | compile in a quote | gerund | the museum not said here | a representative collection of South African art | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Product | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the museum not said here | Collection | unusual property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 6 | compare | participle | the museum not said here | to Collection's contemporaries | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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