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title: Old: The oldest of the three cemeteries, dating from 1871, is simply… — Bloemfontein · tree and pragmatics
description: Old: The oldest of the three cemeteries, dating from 1871, is simply a tiny fenced-off area of a public cemetery near the city centre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bloemfontein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bloemfontein, sentence 256

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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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Old: The oldest of the three cemeteries, dating from 1871, is simply a tiny fenced-off area of a public cemetery near the city centre.

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**What happens:** date, fence off, be · **To what, where:** 1871, tiny fenced area

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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: 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:256
# text = Old: The oldest of the three cemeteries, dating from 1871, is simply a tiny fenced-off area of a public cemetery near the city centre.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nmod:poss	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	cemeteries	cemetery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dating	date	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
15	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	fenced	fence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **date** | gerund |  |  |  | 1871 |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fence off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the Old oldest of the three cemeteries's tiny fenced area |  |  |  | of a public cemetery near the city centre; simply *property* | tree rules |

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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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