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title: The largest event in Canberra up to World War II was the 24th Meetin… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest event in Canberra up to World War II was the 24th Meeting of ANZAAS in January 1939. Who acts: largest event. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 114

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From Wikipedia, [«Canberra»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra), 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 largest event in Canberra up to World War II was the 24th Meeting of ANZAAS in January 1939.

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**Who acts:** largest event · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 24th Meeting

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canberra». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (largest event), 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:Canberra:114
# text = The largest event in Canberra up to World War II was the 24th Meeting of ANZAAS in January 1939.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	24th	24th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	Meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ANZAAS	ANZAAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	1939	1939	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the largest event in Canberra up World War | the 24th Meeting |  |  | january | of ANZAAS | 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, «Canberra», 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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