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title: The four bears are now kept in an open-air enclosure nearby, and two… — Bern · tree and pragmatics
description: The four bears are now kept in an open-air enclosure nearby, and two other young bears, a present by the Russian president, are kept in Dählhölzli zoo. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bern» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bern, sentence 155

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From Wikipedia, [«Bern»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern), 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 four bears are now kept in an open-air enclosure nearby, and two other young bears, a present by the Russian president, are kept in Dählhölzli zoo.

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**What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** four bears, air enclosure, two other young bears, Dählhölzli zoo

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bern». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Bern:155
# text = The four bears are now kept in an open-air enclosure nearby, and two other young bears, a present by the Russian president, are kept in Dählhölzli zoo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Dählhölzli	Dählhölzli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · passive |  | the four bears |  | a air enclosure | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in enclosure=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | two other young bears  a present by the Russian president |  | Dählhölzli zoo |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in zoo=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, «Bern», 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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