Wellington, sentence 439
From Wikipedia, «Wellington», 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.
Television broadcasts began in Wellington on 1 July 1961 with the launch of channel WNTV1, becoming the third New Zealand city (after Auckland and Christchurch) to receive regular television broadcasts.
Who acts: Television broadcasts · What happens: begin, become, receive · To what, where: Wellington, third Zealand city, regular television broadcasts
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Wellington». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Television broadcasts), 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 | Television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broadcasts | compound |
| 2 | broadcasts | broadcast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Wellington | case |
| 5 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 1 | case |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 began | obl |
| 8 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 1961 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | 1961 | 1961 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1 | flat |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 launch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 launch | det |
| 12 | launch | launch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 channel | case |
| 14 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 launch | nmod |
| 15 | WNTV1 | WNTV1 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 channel | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 becoming | punct |
| 17 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 began | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 city | amod |
| 20 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Zealand | flat |
| 21 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 city | compound |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 becoming | xcomp |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Auckland | punct |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 Auckland | case |
| 25 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 city | appos |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Christchurch | cc |
| 27 | Christchurch | Christchurch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Auckland | conj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 Auckland | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 receive | mark |
| 30 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 becoming | xcomp |
| 31 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 broadcasts | amod |
| 32 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 broadcasts | compound |
| 33 | broadcasts | broadcast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 receive | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Television broadcasts | Wellington | on 1; with the launch of channel | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with launch=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | Television broadcasts not said here | the third Zealand city | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | Television broadcasts not said here | regular television broadcasts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broadcast=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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