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title: It was the original performance venue for theatre groups such as the… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the original performance venue for theatre groups such as the Canberra Repertory Society. Who acts: theatre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 317

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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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It was the original performance venue for theatre groups such as the Canberra Repertory Society.

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**Who acts:** theatre · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** original performance venue

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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 (theatre), 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:317
# text = It was the original performance venue for theatre groups such as the Canberra Repertory Society.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	venue	venue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Repertory	Repertory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | theatre | the original performance venue |  |  |  | for theatre groups such the Canberra Repertory Society | tree rules |

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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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