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title: Thomas Muster is a former tennis player and was one of the world's l… — Austria · tree and pragmatics
description: Thomas Muster is a former tennis player and was one of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s. Who acts: Thomas. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Austria» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Austria, sentence 482

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From Wikipedia, [«Austria»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria), 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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Thomas Muster is a former tennis player and was one of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s.

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**Who acts:** Thomas · **What happens:** be, lead · **To what, where:** former tennis player, one

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Austria». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thomas), 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:Austria:482
# text = Thomas Muster is a former tennis player and was one of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s.
1	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Muster	Muster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tennis	tennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
16	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Thomas | a former tennis player |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Thomas *not said here* | one |  |  |  | of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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, «Austria», 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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