Pretoria, sentence 86
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.
Several national government departments also have their head offices in the central business district, including the Department of Health, Basic Education, Transport, Higher Education and Training, Sport and Recreation, Justice and Constitutional Development, Public Service and Administration, Water and Environmental Affairs and the National Treasury.
Who acts: Several national government departments · What happens: have · To what, where: head offices, central business district
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 (Several national government departments), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 departments | amod |
| 2 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 departments | amod |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departments | compound |
| 4 | departments | department | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 offices | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offices | compound |
| 9 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 district | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 district | det |
| 12 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 district | amod |
| 13 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 district | compound |
| 14 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Department | punct |
| 16 | including | including | ADP | _ | 18 Department | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Department | det |
| 18 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 district | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Health | case |
| 20 | Health | Health | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Department | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Education | punct |
| 22 | Basic | Basic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Education | amod |
| 23 | Education | Education | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Department | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Transport | punct |
| 25 | Transport | Transport | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Department | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Education | punct |
| 27 | Higher | High | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Education | amod |
| 28 | Education | Education | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Department | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Training | cc |
| 30 | Training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Department | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Sport | punct |
| 32 | Sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 district | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Recreation | cc |
| 34 | Recreation | recreation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Sport | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Justice | punct |
| 36 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 have | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Development | cc |
| 38 | Constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Development | amod |
| 39 | Development | Development | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Justice | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Service | punct |
| 41 | Public | Public | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Service | compound |
| 42 | Service | Service | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Justice | appos |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Administration | cc |
| 44 | Administration | Administration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Service | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Water | punct |
| 46 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Service | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Affairs | cc |
| 48 | Environmental | environmental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Affairs | amod |
| 49 | Affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Justice | conj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Treasury | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Treasury | det |
| 52 | National | National | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 Treasury | amod |
| 53 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Justice | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Several national government departments | departments's head offices | the central business district and Sport and Recreation | Justice and Constitutional Development and Environmental Affairs and the National Treasury parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=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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