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title: In Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework develop… — Australia · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework developed in Aboriginal Australia, the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings formed The Creation. Who acts: Dreaming, ancestral totemic spirit beings. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Australia» with its dependency tr
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# Australia, sentence 352

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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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In Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework developed in Aboriginal Australia, the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings formed The Creation.

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**Who acts:** Dreaming, ancestral totemic spirit beings · **What happens:** develop, be, form · **To what, where:** animist framework, Aboriginal Australia, sacred era, Australian Aboriginal mythology, Creation

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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 (Dreaming, ancestral totemic spirit beings), 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:352
# text = In Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework developed in Aboriginal Australia, the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings formed The Creation.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	animist	animist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	framework	framework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Aboriginal	Aboriginal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Dreaming	dreaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	totemic	totemic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Creation	creation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **develop** | participle |  | the animist framework *not said here* |  | Aboriginal Australia |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Dreaming | a sacred era |  | Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | past | ancestral totemic spirit beings | the Creation |  | a sacred era |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creation=Theme |

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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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