Pretoria, sentence 91
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.
Pretoria's nickname "the Jacaranda City" comes from the around 70,000 jacaranda trees that grow in Pretoria and decorate the city each October with their purple blossoms.
Who acts: nickname, 70,000 jacaranda trees, Pretoria · What happens: come, grow, decorate, nickname · To what, where: around, Pretoria, city
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 (nickname, 70,000 jacaranda trees, Pretoria), 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 | Pretoria | Pretoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nickname | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pretoria | case |
| 3 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 City | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 City | det |
| 6 | Jacaranda | Jacaranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 City | compound |
| 7 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nickname | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 City | punct |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 around | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 around | det |
| 12 | around | around | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | obl |
| 13 | 70,000 | 70,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 trees | nummod |
| 14 | jacaranda | jacaranda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trees | compound |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 around | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 grow | nsubj |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 trees | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Pretoria | case |
| 19 | Pretoria | Pretoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 grow | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 decorate | cc |
| 21 | decorate | decorate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 grow | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 decorate | obj |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 October | det |
| 25 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 decorate | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 blossoms | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 blossoms | nmod:poss |
| 28 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blossoms | amod |
| 29 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 decorate | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Pretoria's nickname | the around 70,000 jacaranda trees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from around=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | 70,000 jacaranda trees | Pretoria | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pretoria=Location | ||||
| 3 | decorate | infinitive | 70,000 jacaranda trees not said here | the city | october | with city's purple blossoms | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Destination with blossom=Theme | ||
| 4 | nickname | Pretoria | nom nickname «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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