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title: The Çubuk Brook flows through the city center of Ankara. — Ankara · tree and pragmatics
description: The Çubuk Brook flows through the city center of Ankara. Who acts: Çubuk Brook. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ankara» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ankara, sentence 143

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From Wikipedia, [«Ankara»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara), 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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The Çubuk Brook flows through the city center of Ankara.

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**Who acts:** Çubuk Brook · **What happens:** flow · **To what, where:** city center

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ankara». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Çubuk Brook), 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:Ankara:143
# text = The Çubuk Brook flows through the city center of Ankara.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Çubuk	Çubuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Brook	Brook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Ankara	Ankara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | present | the Çubuk Brook |  |  | the city center of Ankara |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through center=Location |

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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, «Ankara», 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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