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title: This was designed so that looking from Capital Hill, the War Memoria… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: This was designed so that looking from Capital Hill, the War Memorial stood directly at the foot of Mount Ainslie. Who acts: looking. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 186

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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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This was designed so that looking from Capital Hill, the War Memorial stood directly at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

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**Who acts:** looking · **What happens:** design, look, stand · **To what, where:** This, foot

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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 (looking), 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:186
# text = This was designed so that looking from Capital Hill, the War Memorial stood directly at the foot of Mount Ainslie.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Memorial	Memorial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Ainslie	Ainslie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past · passive |  | This |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from Capital Hill | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hill=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | looking |  |  | the foot of Mount |  | directly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |

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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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