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title: The latter was called Calvary Public Hospital Bruce before its acqui… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter was called Calvary Public Hospital Bruce before its acquisition by the ACT Government in 2023. Who acts: ACT Government, bed. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 358

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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 latter was called Calvary Public Hospital Bruce before its acquisition by the ACT Government in 2023.

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**Who acts:** ACT Government, bed · **What happens:** call, acquire · **To what, where:** latter, 2023 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ACT Government, bed), 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:358
# text = The latter was called Calvary Public Hospital Bruce before its acquisition by the ACT Government in 2023.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Calvary	Calvary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	Public	Public	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Hospital	Hospital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ACT	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive | the ACT Government | the latter |  | 2023 |  | Calvary Hospital Bruce before bed's acquisition *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **acquire** |  | bed |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquisition «act 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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