Pretoria, sentence 340
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.
It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific researchers, often working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Who acts: organisation, 3,000 technical researchers · What happens: have, work · To what, where: staff
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 (organisation, 3,000 technical researchers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 staff | det |
| 4 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 researchers | case |
| 6 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 7 3,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 researchers | nummod |
| 8 | technical | technical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 researchers | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scientific | cc |
| 10 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 technical | conj |
| 11 | researchers | researcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 staff | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 working | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 working | advmod |
| 14 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 researchers | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 teams | case |
| 16 | multi-disciplinary | multi-disciplinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 teams | amod |
| 17 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 working | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | organisation | a staff of 3,000 technical researchers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Patient | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | 3,000 technical researchers not said here | in multi-disciplinary teams; often property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in team=Theme |
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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