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title: Joshua John Moore, the first European land-owner in the region, name… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: Joshua John Moore, the first European land-owner in the region, named his grant "Canberry" in 1823 after these people. " Who acts: region, Joshua. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 29

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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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Joshua John Moore, the first European land-owner in the region, named his grant "Canberry" in 1823 after these people. "

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**Who acts:** region, Joshua · **What happens:** name, grant · **To what, where:** grant, 1823, Joshua

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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 (region, Joshua), 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:29
# text = Joshua John Moore, the first European land-owner in the region, named his grant "Canberry" in 1823 after these people. "
1	Joshua	Joshua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Moore	Moore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
7	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Canberry	Canberry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1823	1823	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle | the region *not said here* | Joshua's grant |  | 1823 | after this people |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Theme |
| 3 | **grant** |  | Joshua |  |  |  |  |  | nom grant «possession transitive»: poss=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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