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title: According to statistics collected by the National Australia Bank, Ca… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: According to statistics collected by the National Australia Bank, Canberrans on average gave significantly more money to charity in 2014 than Australians in other states and territories, for both dollar giving and as a proportion of income. Who acts: statistics, dollar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Ca
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# Canberra, sentence 277

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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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According to statistics collected by the National Australia Bank, Canberrans on average gave significantly more money to charity in 2014 than Australians in other states and territories, for both dollar giving and as a proportion of income.

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**Who acts:** statistics, dollar · **What happens:** accord, collect, give · **To what, where:** statistics, average, more money, charity, 2014

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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 (statistics, dollar), 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:277
# text = According to statistics collected by the National Australia Bank, Canberrans on average gave significantly more money to charity in 2014 than Australians in other states and territories, for both dollar giving and as a proportion of income.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	statistics	statistic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Canberrans	Canberran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	significantly	significantly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Australians	Australian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	territories	territory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **collect** | participle |  | statistics *not said here* |  | average |  | by the National Australia Bank and Canberrans | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past | statistics | more money | charity | 2014 than Australians |  | in other states for both dollar and territories | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to charity=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | both dollar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a proportion of income *conj* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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