Pretoria, sentence 9
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.
Some have proposed changing the official name from Pretoria to Tshwane, which has caused some public controversy.
Who acts: Tshwane · What happens: propose, change, cause · To what, where: Some, official name, Tshwane, Pretoria, public controversy
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 (Tshwane), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 proposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 proposed | aux |
| 3 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 proposed | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changing | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Pretoria | case |
| 9 | Pretoria | Pretoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Tshwane | case |
| 11 | Tshwane | Tshwane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 changing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caused | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 caused | aux |
| 15 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Tshwane | acl:relcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 controversy | det |
| 17 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 controversy | amod |
| 18 | controversy | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | present · perfect · passive | Some | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | gerund | the official name | Tshwane | Pretoria | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cause | present · perfect | Tshwane | some public controversy | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition controversy=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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