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title: The Anglican church of St John the Baptist, in the suburb of Reid, w… — Canberra · tree and pragmatics
description: The Anglican church of St John the Baptist, in the suburb of Reid, was consecrated in 1845, and is now the oldest surviving public building in the city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canberra» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Canberra, sentence 67

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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 Anglican church of St John the Baptist, in the suburb of Reid, was consecrated in 1845, and is now the oldest surviving public building in the city.

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**What happens:** consecrate, survive, be · **To what, where:** Anglican church, 1845, oldest surviving public building, city

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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: 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:67
# text = The Anglican church of St John the Baptist, in the suburb of Reid, was consecrated in 1845, and is now the oldest surviving public building in the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Anglican	anglican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	suburb	suburb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Reid	Reid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1845	1845	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
26	surviving	survive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
27	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consecrate** | past · passive |  | the Anglican church of John  St |  | 1845 |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **survive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the oldest surviving public building |  | the city | now |  | 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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