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title: The Labor Party has held all seats at every federal election since 1… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: The Labor Party has held all seats at every federal election since 1980, although it lost a byelection for the Division of Canberra in 1995. Who acts: seat. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 246

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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 Labor Party has held all seats at every federal election since 1980, although it lost a byelection for the Division of Canberra in 1995.

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**Who acts:** seat · **What happens:** hold, lose · **To what, where:** Labor Party, federal election, byelection, 1995

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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 (seat), 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:246
# text = The Labor Party has held all seats at every federal election since 1980, although it lost a byelection for the Division of Canberra in 1995.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Labor	Labor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	federal	federal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	since	since	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	byelection	byelection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · perfect · passive |  | the Labor Party |  | every federal election | since 1980 | all seats *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme seat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lose** | past | seat | a byelection |  | 1995 |  | for the Division of Canberra | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent byelection=Eventuality |

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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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