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title: This association began holding the first club tournament, which was… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: This association began holding the first club tournament, which was the "Rosario Cup Championship". Who acts: association, first club tournament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 248

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From Wikipedia, [«Aden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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This association began holding the first club tournament, which was the "Rosario Cup Championship".

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**Who acts:** association, first club tournament · **What happens:** begin, hold, be · **To what, where:** first club tournament, Cup Championship

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Aden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (association, first club tournament), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Aden:248
# text = This association began holding the first club tournament, which was the "Rosario Cup Championship".
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	association	association	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Rosario	Rosario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Championship	championship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | this association |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | this association *not said here* | the first club tournament |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tournament=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the first club tournament | the Cup Championship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Aden», 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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