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title: Some of the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup were played at the Fr… — Bloemfontein · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup were played at the Free State Stadium, including the historic 4–1 defeat of England by Germany in the round of 16 Who acts: Germany. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bloemfontein» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bloemfontein, sentence 98

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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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Some of the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup were played at the Free State Stadium, including the historic 4–1 defeat of England by Germany in the round of 16

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**Who acts:** Germany · **What happens:** play, defeat · **To what, where:** Some, Free State Stadium, England

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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 (Germany), 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:98
# text = Some of the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup were played at the Free State Stadium, including the historic 4–1 defeat of England by Germany in the round of 16
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
8	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Stadium	Stadium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	including	including	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · passive | Germany | Some of the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup |  | the Free State Stadium |  | including the historic 4 defeat of England; in the round of 16 | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **defeat** |  |  | England |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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