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title: In December 1988, the Australian Capital Territory was granted full… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: In December 1988, the Australian Capital Territory was granted full self-government by the Commonwealth Parliament, a step proposed as early as 1965. Who acts: Commonwealth Parliament. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 138

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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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In December 1988, the Australian Capital Territory was granted full self-government by the Commonwealth Parliament, a step proposed as early as 1965.

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**Who acts:** Commonwealth Parliament · **What happens:** grant, propose · **To what, where:** Australian Capital Territory, step

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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 (Commonwealth Parliament), 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:138
# text = In December 1988, the Australian Capital Territory was granted full self-government by the Commonwealth Parliament, a step proposed as early as 1965.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	1988	1988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1965	1965	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past · passive | the Commonwealth Parliament | the Australian Capital Territory |  |  | december | full self government *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal government=Theme |
| 2 | **propose** | participle |  | a step *not said here* |  |  |  | as 1965; early *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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, «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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