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title: The headquarters of many Australian Public Service agencies are loca… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: The headquarters of many Australian Public Service agencies are located in Canberra, and Canberra is also host to several Australian Defence Force establishments, most notably the Australian Defence Force headquarters and, which is a naval communications centre that is being converted into a tri-ser
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# Canberra, sentence 263

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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 headquarters of many Australian Public Service agencies are located in Canberra, and Canberra is also host to several Australian Defence Force establishments, most notably the Australian Defence Force headquarters and, which is a naval communications centre that is being converted into a tri-service, multi-user depot.

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**Who acts:** Canberra, several Australian Force establishments · **What happens:** locate, be, convert · **To what, where:** headquarters, Canberra, host, communications centre, tri service

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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 (Canberra, several Australian Force establishments), 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:263
# text = The headquarters of many Australian Public Service agencies are located in Canberra, and Canberra is also host to several Australian Defence Force establishments, most notably the Australian Defence Force headquarters and, which is a naval communications centre that is being converted into a tri-service, multi-user depot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	agencies	agency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	establishments	establishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	notably	notably	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	Defence	Defence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Force	Force	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	24	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	naval	naval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	communications	communication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	compound	_	_
40	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	converted	convert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	tri	tri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	multi-user	multi-user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	depot	depot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **locate** | present · passive |  | the headquarters of many Australian Public Service agencies |  | Canberra |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Canberra | host |  |  |  | to several Australian Force establishments and the Australian Force headquarters and a communications centre | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | several Australian Force establishments and the Australian Force headquarters and a communications centre | a communications centre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **convert** | present · passive |  | a communications centre |  |  |  | into a tri service and multi-user depot *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into service=Result |

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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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