Wellington, sentence 457

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.

The wider metropolitan area for Wellington encompasses areas administered by four local authorities: Wellington City itself, on the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour; Porirua City on Porirua Harbour to the north, notable for its large Māori and Pasifika communities; and Lower Hutt City and Upper Hutt City, largely suburban areas to the northeast, together known as the Hutt Valley.

Who acts: wider metropolitan area · What happens: encompass, administer, know · To what, where: areas, peninsula

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 (wider metropolitan area), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 area	det
2	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 area	amod
3	metropolitan	metropolitan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 area	compound
4	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encompasses	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Wellington	case
6	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 area	nmod
7	encompasses	encompass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 encompasses	obj
9	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 areas	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 authorities	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 authorities	nummod
12	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 authorities	amod
13	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 administered	obl:agent
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 City	punct
15	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 City	compound
16	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 authorities	nmod
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	16 City	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 peninsula	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 peninsula	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 peninsula	det
21	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 administered	obl
22	between	between	ADP	_	24 Strait	case
23	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Strait	compound
24	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 peninsula	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Wellington	cc
26	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Strait	conj
27	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Wellington	flat
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 City	punct
29	Porirua	Porirua	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 City	compound
30	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 encompasses	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 Harbour	case
32	Porirua	Porirua	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Harbour	compound
33	Harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 City	nmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 north	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 north	det
36	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Harbour	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 notable	punct
38	notable	notable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 north	amod
39	for	for	ADP	_	45 communities	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 communities	nmod:poss
41	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 communities	amod
42	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 communities	compound
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Pasifika	cc
44	Pasifika	Pasifika	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Māori	conj
45	communities	community	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 notable	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 City	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 City	cc
48	Lower	Lower	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 City	compound
49	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 City	compound
50	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 encompasses	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 Upper	cc
52	Upper	Upper	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 City	conj
53	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Upper	flat
54	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Upper	flat
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 areas	punct
56	largely	largely	ADV	_	58 areas	advmod
57	suburban	suburban	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 areas	compound
58	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 City	nmod
59	to	to	ADP	_	61 northeast	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 northeast	det
61	northeast	northeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 areas	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 known	punct
63	together	together	ADV	_	64 known	advmod
64	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 encompasses	parataxis
65	as	as	ADP	_	68 Valley	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 Valley	det
67	Hutt	Hutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 Valley	compound
68	Valley	Valley	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 known	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 encompasses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	encompass	present	the wider metropolitan area for Wellington	areas		Porirua City on Porirua Harbour to the north obl; Lower Hutt City suburban areas to the northeast and Upper obl	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot area=Theme
2	administer	participle		areas not said here	the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington	four local authorities Wellington City area obl:agent	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	participle				as the Hutt Valley; together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as valley=Attribute

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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Wellington», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Wellington, sentence 457