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title: The Canberra Museum and Gallery in the city is a repository of local… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: The Canberra Museum and Gallery in the city is a repository of local history and art, housing a permanent collection and visiting exhibitions. Who acts: Canberra Museum. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 309

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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 Canberra Museum and Gallery in the city is a repository of local history and art, housing a permanent collection and visiting exhibitions.

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**Who acts:** Canberra Museum · **What happens:** be, house, visit · **To what, where:** repository, permanent collection, exhibitions

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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 Museum), 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:309
# text = The Canberra Museum and Gallery in the city is a repository of local history and art, housing a permanent collection and visiting exhibitions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Museum	Museum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Gallery	Gallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	repository	repository	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	housing	house	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	appos	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	_
24	exhibitions	exhibition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Canberra Museum and Gallery in the city | a repository |  |  |  | of local history and art | tree rules |
| 2 | **house** | gerund |  | a permanent collection |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location collection=Value |
| 3 | **visit** | gerund |  | exhibitions |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exhibition=Co-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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