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title: Their grandmother was Mary Washington of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire,… — Bridgetown · tree and pragmatics
description: Their grandmother was Mary Washington of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England. Who acts: grandmother. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bridgetown» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bridgetown, sentence 22

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From Wikipedia, [«Bridgetown»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgetown), 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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Their grandmother was Mary Washington of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England.

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**Who acts:** grandmother · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Mary

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bridgetown». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother), 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:Bridgetown:22
# text = Their grandmother was Mary Washington of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Washington	Washington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sulgrave	Sulgrave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | planters's grandmother | Mary and Northamptonshire and England |  |  |  | Northamptonshire *conj*; England *conj* | 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, «Bridgetown», 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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