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title: City-to-city relationships encourage communities and special interes… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: City-to-city relationships encourage communities and special interest groups both locally and abroad to engage in a wide range of exchange activities. Who acts: City city relationships, communities. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 440

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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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City-to-city relationships encourage communities and special interest groups both locally and abroad to engage in a wide range of exchange activities.

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**Who acts:** City city relationships, communities · **What happens:** encourage, engage · **To what, where:** communities, wide range

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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 (City city relationships, communities), 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:440
# text = City-to-city relationships encourage communities and special interest groups both locally and abroad to engage in a wide range of exchange activities.
1	City	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	relationships	relationship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	encourage	encourage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	both	both	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	locally	locally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | present | City city relationships | communities and special interest groups |  |  |  | locally *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent community=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **engage** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | communities and special interest groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a wide range of exchange activities *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in range=Goal |

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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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