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title: The Murray-Darling is the major river system, draining most of inlan… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Murray-Darling is the major river system, draining most of inland New South Wales and Southern Queensland towards Lake Alexandrina and the sea in South Australia. Who acts: Murray Darling, major river system. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Australia, sentence 134

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From Wikipedia, [«Australia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), 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 Murray-Darling is the major river system, draining most of inland New South Wales and Southern Queensland towards Lake Alexandrina and the sea in South Australia.

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**Who acts:** Murray Darling, major river system · **What happens:** be, drain · **To what, where:** major river system, most

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Murray Darling, major river system), 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:Australia:134
# text = The Murray-Darling is the major river system, draining most of inland New South Wales and Southern Queensland towards Lake Alexandrina and the sea in South Australia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Murray	Murray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	draining	drain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	20	flat	_	_
20	Queensland	Queensland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
23	Alexandrina	Alexandrina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Murray Darling | the major river system and the sea in South Australia |  |  |  | the sea in South Australia *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drain** | gerund | the major river system and the sea in South Australia *not said here* | most of New South Wales and Southern Queensland |  |  |  | towards Lake | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent most=Theme towards lake=Destination |

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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, «Australia», 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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