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title: The first rose festival occurred in 1976, when council members decid… — Bloemfontein · tree and pragmatics
description: The first rose festival occurred in 1976, when council members decided that hosting such a festival was appropriate, given the area's name. Who acts: first, council members, hosting, area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bloemfontein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bloemfontein, sentence 119

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From Wikipedia, [«Bloemfontein»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemfontein), 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 first rose festival occurred in 1976, when council members decided that hosting such a festival was appropriate, given the area's name.

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**Who acts:** first, council members, hosting, area · **What happens:** rise, occur, decide, host, be, give · **To what, where:** festival, 1976, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bloemfontein». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, council members, hosting, area), 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:Bloemfontein:119
# text = The first rose festival occurred in 1976, when council members decided that hosting such a festival was appropriate, given the area's name.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1976	1976	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	hosting	host	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the first | festival |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location festival=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | participle |  | festival *not said here* |  | 1976 |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1976=Location |
| 3 | **decide** | past | council members |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **host** | gerund |  | such festival |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **is** | past | hosting |  |  |  |  | appropriate *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | participle | hosting *not said here* | the area's name |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 7 | **name** |  | the area |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, «Bloemfontein», 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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